Guide of ALTAVISTA BABEL FISH

Added capabilities at AltaVista translation site
Babelfish, http://babelfish.altavista.com, AltaVista's free translation site, just added English to Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, and also Japanese, Korean, and Chinese to English.
(Given my level of ignorance of Asian languages, when I stumble upon or am pointed to a site with unfamiliar characters, I connect to Babelfish, enter the URL and test to see if it is Japanese, Chinese, or Korean).
AltaVista recently increased the range of language pairs it handles with its free automatic translation service, and at the same time made the service far easier to use.
(This is unlike the main Babel translation page, where you can copy text -- complete with accents and non-English characters from the results box to any other document on your PC.) In addition, the translation boxes on the main Babelfish page are now much clearer and easier to use.
Click on World Home, and you arrive at a page where all of AltaVista's language and country-specific features are readily available to you.
You also see a selection of country-specific AltaVista search sites, where the search site itself is written in the local language, the content is tailored for the needs of a local audience, and the server is located in the target country for fast response time -- Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, and United Kingdom.


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abbienormal • Jun 6, 2006 5:17pm There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether Babbelfish or Wordlingo is the best online translator.
My vote goes to babbelfish for its simplicity but they both work just fine.
But even if I hadn't had Babel Fish translate my English, I'd make out the important words here.
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ASPN : Python Cookbook : babelizer - API for simple access to babelfish.altavista.com.
Title: babelizer - API for simple access to babelfish.altavista.com.
This module provides a simple API to allow translation between English and several European languages via the babelfish.altavista.com web site.
There is one function for simple translation, and one for 'babelizing', going back and forth between two languages..
# babelizer.py - API for simple access to babelfish.altavista.com.
# # See it in use at http://babel.MrFeinberg.com/ '''API for simple access to babelfish.altavista.com.
translate( phrase, from_lang, to_lang ) Uses babelfish to translate phrase from from_lang to to_lang.
babelize(phrase, from_lang, through_lang, limit = 12, callback = None) Uses babelfish to translate back and forth between from_lang and through_lang until either no more changes occur in translation or limit iterations have been reached, whichever comes first.
Both translation methods throw exceptions which are all subclasses of BabelizerError.
BabelfishChangedError Thrown when babelfish.altavista.com changes some detail of their layout, and babelizer can no longer parse the results or submit the correct form (a not infrequent occurance).
BabelizerIOError Thrown for various networking and IO errors.

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A Review Of Multilingual Translators
In this review, I look at two alternative machine translation solutions: AltaVista's "Babel Fish" and Ambatch's "Multilingual Marketer.
The feedback I had from several French and German language speakers was that there's not much to choose between Babel Fish and Multilingual Marketer .
Google sees the Babel Fish page as an English page.
And I think that AdSense is programmed to look out for Babel Fish pages - look at the cheeky ad for the Google toolbar!.
On the Babel Fish page, the Preview Tool only showed English language ads (some of them for translation services!) On the Multilingual Marketers page, the tool showed only French ads..
AltaVista's "Babel Fish" This is free , and is available from here .
From AltaVista's webmasters' translation page, you simply select the language that your site is in, and you are given a snippet of JavaScript which you paste into your web page whereever you want the translation box to appear (that's it, on this page, to the left of the headline).
Click here to go up this page, and select your national flag from the Babel Fish panel.
So, from a marketing point of view, what are the drawbacks of "Babel Fish"?.

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