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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