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Chapter 11: Dictionaries and Dictionary Software

the URL is provided. It is of no surprise that Yahoo! oers comparable functionality to

Google’s language tools with Babel Fish.

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While specic to Japanese, the goo search engine oers very useful dictionaries and trans-

lation tools.

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Infoseek’s Japanese website oers a Japanese-English and English-Japanese

translation service, along with the very unique ability to translate standard Japanese text

into Kansai dialect ( kansai ben).

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SDL oers their FreeTranslation website,

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and Babylon oers comparable translation

services.

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Each of these machine translation services deserves to be explored, if for no other reason

than to determine which best suits your needs. For those who nd their capabilities too

limiting, consider some of the commercial options, which are covered next.

Commercial Machine Translation Services

In the spirit of the “you get what you pay for” expression, some machine translation ser-

vices are commercial, meaning that you payment is via subscription or based on usage.

LEC oers machine translation subscriptions, such as Translate DotNet and Translate2Go.

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Likewise, LogoVista oers their e-Trans service.

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And SYSTRAN oers various transla-

tion services.

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Language-Learning Aids

is section provides information on some of the Japanese learning aids that are avail-

able—this does not mean that similar ...