From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: translating web pages Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:11:10 -0800 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20041121150833.01f61748@celine> References: <41A11743.70703@kevino.org> <41A11743.70703@kevino.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: References: <41A11743.70703@kevino.org> <41A11743.70703@kevino.org> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Miller , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 05:00 PM 11/21/2004 -0600, James Miller wrote: >On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, mike wrote: > > > I have a question, when I'm on my many searchs for answers I come > > across pages in different languages (my native is english). > > I use Google and it translates some, not always that well though. > > > > Is there a linux program I can use to translate pages or is there a > > better aproach? > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > >Hello Mike: > >I do a bit of computer translation as well, mostly using my machine as an >electronic dictionary when I must read materials in French or German or >look into the subtelties of some ancient Greek or Hebrew passage. I don't >know of anything that runs natively on Linux that does the sort of thing I >need: I had to buy vmware and install Windows under Linux to get that >functionality (I sorely hope I made a big mistake and overlooked some >Linux program[s], but I doubt it). I do occasionally want to translate a >longer passage to figure out some wierd or unfamiliar syntax or idiom, and >the program I use for that is called Systran. It does ok, but must always >be double-checked by someone who at least knows the grammatical >conventions of the language being translated and can use a dictionary. >That's a Windows program though. I tried getting it to install and work >under WINE/Codeweavers, but had no success. If I were more of a hacker I >might be able to figure out why and get it running. But I'm just a lowly >humanties scholar :). In summary, I don't think you'll find anything at >all that runs under Linux that will do machine translation. If you find >such a thing, I'd love to know about it. The only thing you'll probably >find will be languageA -> languageB dictionaries. Using the online >translators like Google has (Altavista has one too--not sure how/if it >differs) is about the best bet. You might also, as a slightly different >approach to that same method, look into Firefox's extensions: if there's >not already a page translating extension, I'd be surprised if someone >doesn't create one soon. Relative to your comments, James, I fear I can only echo your lack of success. I recently was investigating, specifically, English-Spanish translation. While I did find a couple of Linux apps that function at the dictionary level ... translating words and short phrases, but with no sensitivity to context ... I found nothing in the way of babelfish-like translation for Linux. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs