Babelfish is a Tool of the search machine AltaVista to the automatic translation of texts. The name is a support at the Babelfisch from Douglas Adams' novel by hitchhikers by the galaxy.

The software is set to one of the oldest enterprises by the 1968 company SYSTRAN created in California to the order, to the area of the machine translation. Co-operation goes back on the year 1997, when AltaVista inserted the Tool for the first time on its web page and so that as the first enterprise a Internet offered. First translations were possible in six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. With the Babel Fish can be translated short text fragments (up to 40 sentences) and web pages (up to 5 KB). The Tool enjoys despite its weaknesses of some popularity and in the year 2001 over one million translations per day was already accomplished. The language offer was continued to develop in the following years. Since 25 April 2006 also the AltaVista rival business Yahoo! hostet Inc. a Babel Fish service on its web pages.

Translation offers

Criticism

As also Babelfish clear problems exhibits many other programs for the translation of flow text into other languages, connections to seize and correctly translate. Therefore the translated texts are perhaps incorrectly incomprehensible to completely.

As example a translation from the English Wikipedia source, original text:

Wikipedia is A Web based, multi-LANGUAGE, free content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non profit Wikimedia Foundation. It has edition in roughly 200 different LANGUAGEs (about 100 OF which acres active) and contains entries both on traditional encyclopedic topics and on almanac, more gazetteer, and current events topics. Its PUR-float is ton create and distribute A free internationally encyclopedia in as many LANGUAGEs as possible. Wikipedia is one OF the most popular reference sites on the Internet, receiving around 60 million hit by day.

One translates as follows:

Wikipedia is net-created, a multi-language, free contents encyclopedia, which is written jointly by the Freiwilligern and by the non-profit Wikimedia basis is promoted. It has expenditures in approximately 200 different languages (approximately of those 100 is actively you) and contains entries on traditional topics and on yearbook, Gazetteer and topics of the present cases. Its purpose is to manufacture and distribute a free international encyclopedia in so many languages possible. Wikipedia is one of the most popular reference references to the Internet, which receives around 60 million successes per day.

To consider it is however that Altavistas Babelfish is a free variant for simple translations into many, also exotic, languages.

Related links

• On-line translation service with AltaVista
• On-line translation service with Yahoo!
• Draws in translation: A demonstration, which makes Babelfish with repeated and into different languages from English texts.

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• AltaVista's Babelfish
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