Subject: Language Translation Services Available Online At No Cost
There are a few resources on the net which might be of some use; both req=
uire
Windows operating systems. A net search may yield others, as well.=20
Ginger McCarthy
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For those with a Windows 95 operating system and a JAVA enabled browser,
there is a language translation online English - German dictionary, which=
I
have found to be useful. Developed by Denis Unger, It is also available f=
or
download as a tar file for installation at:
http://www.fh-zwickau.de/~deu/flm_java/ml
Foreign Language Master - Java
Light dictionary (5000 words - 2 * 100 KByte
Standard dictionary (60000 words - 2 * 850 KByte)
Super dictionary (175000 words - 2 * 3.2 MByte)
German KFZ (2 * 15 KByte)
Mirrors of FLM - Java:
www.oasis.leo.org=20
www.ruph.cornell.edu=20
marlowe.uni-paderborn.de=20
www.uniserve.de
If you want FLM for your own HomePage (it is than much faster) you can it=
now
download as tar file (811828 Bytes). This tar file includes the light,
standard and KFZ dictionaries. If you have questions about FLM-Java send =
me
an e-mail (denis.unger@fh-zwickau.de) or look at my HomePage for more
information http://www.fh-zwickau.de/~deu/=20_java/ml
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Systran Software offers Free Translations of HTML documents from their
website:
http://www.systransoft.comdeu/=20_java/ml
* Netscape 1.2+ and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 2.0+ are the only fully
supported browsers.
* Documents must be accessible from the Internet at large. This means you
cannot translate a document that lives on your hard disk. The process of
translation requires the translation system to act as a client: just like=
a
normal, interactive browser. Translations are restricted to HTML documents.
Plain text files and non HTTP URLs will be rejected.
* URLs should either end with a slash (/) or a filename.
Some examples of fully qualified names are:
http://www.systransoft.com/eu/=20_java/ml
http://www.systransoft.com/translate.html
http://www.systransoft.com/~elmer/te.html
Some examples of URLs that are not fully qualified are:
http://www.systransoft.com/~elmer/te.html
http://www.systransoft.com/~elmer/te.html
* limit the size of documents to 10K. If you must translate a larger
document, contact SYSTRAN.
* Framed documents are not currently supported:
The problem is that the translation system is independent of the client
browser. Until frames came along, HTML documents, as presented to a browser,
were self-contained. With the advent of frames, a single document is now
spread over perhaps several files. However, at some point we will introduce
a client-side add-on to popular browsers that will allow translations
to take
place regardless of the HTML extensions they implement.
* Pre-formatted text--text that is found between the codes and --will be
translated, but it will lose all its formatting. In addition, special HTML
characters, such as the open angle bracket (<) and the ampersand (&)
frequently appear in pre-formatted text blocks. These special characters,
when they appear inside pre-formatted text blocks, sometimes cause the HTML
filter to make mistakes.
The underlying translation system is SYSTRAN's Translation Server. The
servers are running on a Pentium 100 with 32MB RAM under WindowsNT
Workstation 3.51.
Copyright 1996 SYSTRAN Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.systransoft.com/translate_questions.html
Contact:info@systransoft.comwebmaster@systransoft.com
SYSTRAN=AE PROfessional for Windows
System Requirements:386 Intel or compatible, Windows 3.1 / WindowsNT-ready
Win32s extensions included, 16MB RAM recommended, 15MB hard disk space
Copyright 1996 SYSTRAN Software
SYSTRAN Software, Inc. http://www.systransoft.com/translate_questions.html
7855 Fay Avenue, Suite 300, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
Telephone: (619) 459-6700, Fax: (619) 459-8487