Rating the web’s translation engines
posted Tue, 2010-05-25 17:23 by
A recent survey into the three major online translation engines – Google Translate, Microsoft’s Bing Translator and Yahoo! Babelfish – yielded some interesting results.
Reviews from more than 1000 participants found Google Translate to be superior for long text passages, while Bing and Babelfish were competitive for shorter passages, with Bing excelling in German and Italian and Babelfish superior in Chinese.
tags: Babelfish, Bing, Google Translate, statistical machine translation, Translation, translation engine
The best global websites
posted Thu, 2010-05-20 15:15 by
The moment a website is launched into cyberspace it’s global. But that doesn’t mean every website on the World Wide Web has been created with global audiences in mind.
tags: Best Global Websites
Translation services booming for local council
posted Mon, 2010-05-17 15:54 by
Milton Keynes council has proven itself a model of multilingual capability, with the news that the council now employs 15 times more interpreters and translators than it did in 2000.
The Milton Keynes Community Language Service has responded to the increasing diversity of languages spoken in its region by increasing its staff of interpreters from 20 to 300 over the past decade.
Pharmaceutical translations needed: study
posted Fri, 2010-05-14 15:05 by
A lack of Spanish-language translations for medicine instructions is putting American patients at risk of overdosing or underdosing, a study by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has found.
The study of 764 pharmacies across four US states with high Latino populations found that only 43.3% could provide translated instructions for their medications, and many of those that did come with translations were often wrong.
Putting the ‘world’ into web: first non-Latin URLs go live…
posted Thu, 2010-05-06 14:03 by
The World Wide Web is exactly that - a very large network of interlinked hypertext documents accessible to anyone on the planet at any time of day...so long as they have a computer and an internet connection, of course.
tags: Non-Latin URLS
