-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The BabelFish web service is really just the free version of SYSTRANBox from Systran software. http://www.systransoft.com/
They offer products and e-services that offer MT (machine translation) and the latest in NLP (natural language processing) tech. DaimlerChrysler uses their products, and there is a case study available on the web site. I know that Babelfish uses their technology (as well as many other search engines), although my understanding is that the corporate products give better translations from the people I've talked to. You might look into seeing if you can use one of there standalone products, or purchase one of their more robust eServices, and use CF to connect up to that. Translations should be better, and speed should go up, although I have not tired it myself. Cheers, Justin - -----Original Message----- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 6:31 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Language Translation and CF It cant be done due to the way a language is broken down etc.... a tranlation engin will give you a base for decrypting a language but you are more than likely to get complete rubbish than you are any sense.. N - -----Original Message----- From: Gene Kraybill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 October 2002 14:18 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Language Translation and CF Main problem is the nature of languages and linguistics: you simply can't reduce them completely to computer algorithms. Multiple meanings depending on context and many other factors will inevitably produce strange, often humorous results when translation is done by machine...Uni Gene Kraybill - -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:07 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Language Translation and CF That bad? Do you know of any remotely good services? We don't have the staff to hire translators for Spanish, French, German, Korean, Chinese and Japanese Joshua Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Language Translation and CF i have no idea how 'serious' you are about translations but unless you're using bablefish 'just for fun', i'd stick w/human beings--i have a wheelbarrow full of crazy english bablefish-ed translations ranging from tragic to hilarious. ditto for french, dutch & portuguese. locally we have a thai<<-->>english webservice that always good for a laugh on a slow day. - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.400 / Virus Database: 226 - Release Date: 10/9/2002 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
