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Thanks for the info

Unfortunately, machine translations are still very limited, especially in the syntax department. Also, there are quite a few phrases that don't translate well. I'd give a demonstration of English to Russian, but Gather doesn't handle Cyrillic since their last upgrade. I may try in an article using straight html. I have access to three English/Russian, Russian/English translation programs and they all deliver different results.

I am now going to write a scathing article to gather about their stripping unicode from comments and articles. I wrote a fairly good article with examples about machine translation and it came out gobbledigook!

Talina N. published an article at http://www.gather.com:80/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977149365 about Google's web page translator at http://www.google.com/translate_t and I made the comment that machine translation is still in its infancy. To give an example, I have three different English/Russian and back machine programs that will give different results. There are some phrases and words that do not translate well and the dictionary must be huge. Syntax is also a major problem.

For example, the phrase "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back":
In Google: (free)

БыÑтрый коричневый лиÑа перепрыгнули через ленивых Ñобак Ñпине

In IMTranslator: (free)
БыÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ñ€Ð¸Ñ‡Ð½ÐµÐ²Ð°Ñ Ð»Ð¸Ñа перепрыгнула через Ñпину ленивой Ñобаки

In @Promt: (not free)
БыÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ñ€Ð¸Ñ‡Ð½ÐµÐ²Ð°Ñ Ð»Ð¸Ñа перепрыгнула через Ñпину ленивой Ñобаки

Note that the last two are the same. That's because the IMTranslator is written by @Promt which is a Russian company.

The best of the be4st as far as translator programs is concerned is PROMT. Like any of them it has some foibles but on the whole it is the best one I have found.

I llove the translator. I use it alot. Esipcally to do tutorials in a foreign langaugae or to read the sites terms of use.

Great links, thank you for sharing them.

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Thanks for the links, Talina.

Thanks for the info.

thanks

cool thanks for the links

Thanks for all these links.. I had no idea.

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