Re: [OT] German-English translation tools
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to
> assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that
> attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some
> of the dirty work as I begin translating some previously unavailable
> articles from German. It could be something as simple as a fairly
> comprehensive electronic dictionary, or possibly an NLP tool that makes a
> stab at syntax as well. Available for linux or solaris is a very large
> plus, but I'll put up with windows if I absolutely have to.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
Hi Andrew,
if you just want to look up some words dict should do. You can get
dictionaries from http://www.freedict.de . Nevertheless I tried this
yesterday and was not able to get it working. Another possibility is
qtrans, a KDE-translator, based on Babylon dictionaries:
http://olaf3.cjb.net/
Frank
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