Translation Portal
About Machine Translation
Although machine translation is by no means perfect, it offers a free and easy way to translate content on the web. By integrating translation into your website or blog it opens up your site to new users. In addition, integrating an automatic translation service into your browser greatly expands the number of websites you can visit.
Add Translation to Your Website or Blog
- Choose from three designs
- PHP (works on most sites and blogs)
- Automatic (page URL is inserted automatically)
- No logos (powered by Google)
Other Solutions:
- Javascript
- Not (X)HTML Valid
- A maximum of five languages to choose from
- Large Altavista logo
- Non-customizable/Preformatted
- Easy to integrate
- Redirects for the translation
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- Same as Altavista except:
- (X)HTML Valid
- A maximum of twelve langauges to choose from
- Slightly smaller and better looking (but still has Yahoo! logo)
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Add Translation to Your Browser
Google Translation Buttons
You can click and drag translation buttons for various languages to your browsers toolbar; it takes one click to translate a page.
Yahoo Toolbar
Translation is integrated into Yahoo!'s browser toolbar.
Text Translation Sites
Free2Professional Translation
Free2Professional has a nice feature to add non-standard characters (accents, umlauts, tildes etc.).
Systran
Systran provides the translation software for both Google and Yahoo!, thus you get the most available langauges with this service.
Other Resources
Wikipedia - Machine Translation
Machine Translation: an Introductory Guide (book)
Machine Translation and Minority Languages (paper)
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