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Translation script
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:07 am
by AGISB
I would like to program a translation script to help me with a project.
The process is straight forward but I lack one important thing: The wordlists.
Anyone know a downloadable Wordlist English <-> German?
Any other languages would be nice but not necessary.
Thanks in advance
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:54 am
by onion2k
Translating from one language to another is not just a case of changing the word in one language to the same word in another.
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:38 am
by AGISB
In my project it is. Just need to translate ingrediences, tools etc
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:41 am
by timvw
i think there are gnu programs gnu aspell / dict ..
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:21 am
by feyd
could possibly use the translation services from babelfish as well. As with any translation that isn't done by a human, there are many subtle nuances that will change the word you reall need to use.. esp with German and English.
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:30 am
by AGISB
Sure there are many good translation services out there.
I am actually looking to translate a database of ingrediences with 10000 entires.
I doubt altavista would like me to spam there service and I hardly want to spend my days and weeks now translating
I found a wordlist on CD I can order for a shipping fee but if anyone knows a downloadable list I would just do that.
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:37 am
by feyd
you could create a script that babelfish can translate the entire page (of which would be all 10K words. Then just read in the results passed back (involves parsing a frameset at the least) and extracting back the list.
Worst comes to worst, could just manually ask babelfish to translate it, and use a script seperately (manually) to extract the conversions.
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:15 am
by feyd