ELECTRONIC TRANSLATION TOOLS

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Descriptions
Languages
Altavista Babel Fish
On-line translation. (for Korean) For simple sentences with one prepositional phrase, the translation is understandable even though it does not translate the preposition accurately. For complex sentences, good luck! English, Chinese, French, German, Korean, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish

TravLang

FLfT search

On-line dictionary. Does not contain many words, but Boolean search function seems very handy.
Too many pop-up advertisements!

On-line dictionary. FLfT search gives results in 80 different languages.

English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Latin, Finish, Norwegian, Frisian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Esperanto, Turkish
Ectaco Online Dictionaries
On-line dictionary. Various languages. Gives deferent meanings but no examples. English, Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-roatian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Yiddish
Free Translation
On-line translation. This site works like Babel Fish but less languages. Translates words, phrases, sentences, and web pages. One special feature is that this site provides tools to type special characters. English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian
Google Language Tools
On-line translation. This site works like Babel Fish but less languages. Translates words, phrases, sentences, and web pages. The user can search the Internet with the results as search worlds. English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese
Babylon
Pop-up on-line dictionary. Instantly provides relevant information about any word you click on. Install the program and click on any words on the Internet browser or word documents. As long as connected to the Internet, it work for any texts any where on your computer. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese
WorldLingo
On-line translation. This site works like Babel Fish. Translates words, phrases, and sentences. This translator works better for complex sentences with relative pronouns than Babel Fish at least for Korean. It also provides specialized translation service for different subject areas of text such as chemistry, economics, etc. English, Chinese, French, German, Korean, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Greek
Tesauro de SIGNUM en linea
On-line Thesaurus (mono lingual). Spanish Online Thesaurus. The site includes also several electronic language tools for Spanish. Spanish
InterTran
On-line translation. This site works like Babel Fish. A special feature I like is that it gives the user an option to choose different words for individual parts of speech in a sentence to alternate the translation. Then the user needs to have basic knowledge. English, Croatian, Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, Finish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Filipino, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh
The Internet Dictionary Project

Dictionary. It allows you to search the IDP dictionaries on your home computer, when you're not connected to the Internet. It uses the dictionary files available from the "Files" area of the IDP. That means whenever those files are updated, it's a snap to update your home computer's dictionaries as well. The IDP Companion runs on Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and NT.

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English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Spanish, Romanian
Internet dictionary project
On-line dictionary. This does not just translate the word, but also provides phrases that contain the word. English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Spanish
Smartran
Translation program. This software translates web pages and text documents from Korean to English. I emailed a company called "Smartan" a while a go to ask about their translation program. I checked their web site, and it seemed doing quite accurate translation. Click here to see the brochure. Click here to see the email from Smartan. English, Korean
Hanmin
Translation program. This is another program that traslate from Korean to English. This translates some specialized documents with a lot of jargon in econ, electronics, politics, civil engineering, chemistry, space science, etc. English, Korean
Yahoo! English Dictionary
On-line dictionary. This can be a good online translation tool. The user can drag words to the text area. This dictionary also provides a lot of examples. English, Korean
Rechnik
On-line dictionary. The Bulgarian RECHNIK developed at Columbia University contains 2365 common words and expressions in six languages - Bulgarian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian. You can search by substring (part of a word) in any of these languages. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Bulgarian
Rechnik Bulgarian Dictionary
On-line dictionary. Provides rich definitions. English, Bulgarian
Langenberg
On-line dictionary, On-line translation. Combination of both and collection of a variety of translation tools on the Internet. Various language
WordReference
Pop-up on-line dictionary. Instantly provides definitions of any words you choose on a web page. Basis for the English-Spanish translation is The Collins Concise Spanish Dictionary. Click here to download this program for Spanish-English version. English, Spanish, German,
Italian, French
Terminological Information System (TIS)
On-line dictionary. The system was designed as a working tool for translators to provide a database of terms and abbreviations in the languages. Subject areas include agriculture, environment, atomic energy, harmonisation of legislation and food processing.
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Latin.
Freelang
Dictionary Program. Download and install the program and the word list. Once the program has been installed, you can download and install as many word lists as you want. Download this dictionary (Spanish-English version) and word list. 36 Languages
Word Magic

On-line Traslation, Dictionary, Spell checkers, conjugators (Online Trial) programs.

Automatic translator, Interactive translator, Web page translator, Dictionary & Thesaurus, Verb conjugator, Bilingual Spell Checker.

English, Spanish