Language translation and dicitionariesDicitionaries
Dicitionaries online http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html links to 350 dictionaries of 150 different languages
Language Translations While 80 percent of web content is in english, nearly 70 percent of pc users are non-english
http://www.babelfish.altavista.com The web's biggest and busiest free real-time translation service, AltaVista's Babel Fish performs about a million translations a day. The site converts english into most major european languages, but doesn't accept text blocks longer than 1000characters or wed pages withmore than a measly 5k of text.
http://www.babylon.com Israel-based babylon free downloadable windows dictionary will correctly pronounce an english word then offer to translate it into one of 10 languages - including Chinese
http://www.e-lingo.com e-ling does the usual URL and text-block translation tricks, but also sends translated email straight from its site.
http://www.freetranslation.com Translates text documents of up to 13,000 words about 20 pages of a word processing file.
http://www.tranexp.com:2000/interTran InterTran is more a Web-based word for word (and phrase for phrase) translation dictionary than a full blown translator, but it does work between 351 language pairs. Whats more intertran doesn't just provide one translation- it offers the user multiple translations for each part of speech.
http://www.systranet.com The Mother of all web translation apps, Systran powers the Babel Fish, Go Network, and Voila translators. After you enroll on Systran's own Systranet site, it translates entire word processing files (saved in RTF, Plaintest, or HTML) without affecting thier original formatting. The site lets you choose one of 20 specialized dictionaries - legal, or automotive for example, to use in translating your text.
http://www.transbot.com TransBot doesn't translate entire sentences, but rather targets individual words on a web page. Select a URL, and the page is fed through the TransBot reader. The first letter of every word will appear as a hyperlink: Click the letter and a little box will appear with the translated word.
http://www.evolutionary.net/dict-info.htm This Shareware translates English words and pharases for the Palm and Windows CE platforms. Language modules vary in size from 1,800 to 19,000 entries.(Many languages are supported, including Slovak and Esperanto)
http://www.pinksoftware.com/trans South Africa-based Pink Software will translate text samples from English to Afrikaans or Zulu, and from Afrikaans, Tswana, or Swahili to Englis.
Machine Translation R&D Worldwide
AT&T Labs http://www.research.att.comIBM http://www.research.ibm.com/hlt
Integrated Wave Tech http://www.i-w-t.com
German research center for Artificial intelligence http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de
Dragon Systems http://www.dragonsys.com
Info Sci Inst. U of S Cal http://www.isi.edu
MIT spoken Languag system Group http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls
Scansoft http://www.lhsl.com
Systran Software http://www.systransoft.com
NTT Communication Science Laboratories http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp
Advanced Telecommunications Research http://www.itl.atr.co.jp
United Nations University, Universal Networking Language Center http://www.unl.ias.unu.edu
