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Tsundoku
Tsundoku

Reputation: 9418

Online Translation

I am trying to develop an online translation service (sort of a personal challenge) but I have been looking for any guidelines or any way to see how it should be done and so far I have come up with nothing so. In a nutshell, does anybody knows where to find a service, code or explanation of how online translation works and/or guidelines for making one?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 661

Answers (5)

user3439216
user3439216

Reputation: 1

You can have a look at the codes of Spanish English, which is an online translation site.

Upvotes: -1

Cristian Libardo
Cristian Libardo

Reputation: 9258

You could take a look at a similar project: Machine Translation

Upvotes: 1

Jim C
Jim C

Reputation: 4981

This is a big undertaking. For personal use I use google translate. It does not do a great job, but enough I can get a decent understanding. At work we use COMIDOC, a fairly expensive commercial service. Its not perfect and we have to do a lot of work setting up specialized translations of technical sentences.

Upvotes: 0

workmad3
workmad3

Reputation: 25707

Decent online translation services work as follows:

  1. Email company with text to translate
  2. They get humans to translate it.
  3. Company sends translated text back in another email
  4. At some point in the above, money exchanges hands.

Automated translation services tend to not work well, due to the huge amount of information required to translate text other than just the text itself, and issues that arise when there isn't an accurate translation for something between 2 languages.

Upvotes: 1

Cedric Meury
Cedric Meury

Reputation: 973

For a "personal challenge" this project seems way too big. You would need a huge dictionnary and very sophisticated translation algorithms. Or are you asking if there are APIs to existing translation services?

Upvotes: 1

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