Free Windows Help Tutorials sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org /title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=ISO 8859-1"> <META name="description" Content="Hundreds of downloadable Windows help tutorials, articles and how-to guides sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org."><style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=#999999 vlink=blue link=blue> <span name = "INTRA" class="pg" style="top:0px; left:5px; width:714px; height:1010px"></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:0px; left:5px; height:1010px; width:714px' class='img'> <img src="pg0001im.png" height = "1010 width = "714" border="0"> </span> <span class='nav' style='left: 10px; top: 10px'><pre></pre></span><span name = "INTRA" style='top:58px; left:520px' class="ft5"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>Buying and Evaluating:Software</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:113px; left:208px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>Understanding</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:163px; left:131px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>Automatic</b> <b>Translation</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:252px; left:133px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>English</b></i> <i><b>is</b></i> <i><b>accepted</b></i> <i><b>as</b></i> <i><b>the</b></i> <i><b>international</b></i> <i><b>business</b></i> <i><b>language,</b></i> <i><b>but</b></i> <i><b>sometimes</b></i> <i><b>you'll</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:272px; left:155px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>need</b></i> <i><b>to</b></i> <i><b>translate</b></i> <i><b>text</b></i> <i><b>such</b></i> <i><b>as</b></i> <i><b>marketing</b></i> <i><b>material</b></i> <i><b>into</b></i> <i><b>other</b></i> <i><b>languages</b></i> <i><b>or</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:292px; left:142px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>interpret</b></i> <i><b>the</b></i> <i><b>terms</b></i> <i><b>and</b></i> <i><b>conditions</b></i> <i><b>received</b></i> <i><b>from</b></i> <i><b>an</b></i> <i><b>overseas</b></i> <i><b>trading</b></i> <i><b>partner.</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:312px; left:154px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>Various</b></i> <i><b>excellent</b></i> <i><b>software</b></i> <i><b>and</b></i> <i><b>Web based</b></i> <i><b>products</b></i> <i><b>are</b></i> <i><b>available</b></i> <i><b>cheaply.</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:344px; left:576px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>By Mike Lewis</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:431px; left:81px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>M</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:435px; left:129px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>odern translation programs</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:435px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>own Web site, and submit multi lin </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:435px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>You might think that this defeats the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:447px; left:129px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>go well beyond the simple</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:447px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>gual searches to Internet search en </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:447px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>object, but the entire process will still</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:459px; left:129px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>word look up techniques of</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:459px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>gines.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:459px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>be much faster and will require a</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:470px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>earlier offerings. They work by analys </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:470px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>lower skill level than using a profes </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:482px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>ing words in their wider context, and</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:484px; left:273px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>Engines</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:482px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>sional translator.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:494px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>by processing sentences as a whole.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:494px; left:478px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>If you are sending a machine trans </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:506px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Some are also able to translate directly</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:506px; left:287px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Despite wide variations in their</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:506px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>lation to another person, it is a good</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:518px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>between two languages without using</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:518px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>packaging and user interfaces, the ma </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:518px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>idea to attach the original text, along</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:530px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>English as an intermediary. These and</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:530px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>jority of these products are based on</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:530px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>with a note to say that a translation</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:542px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>other enhancements have greatly im </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:542px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>just a few translation engines. Thus,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:542px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>program was used. This will help</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:553px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>proved the quality of the process.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:553px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Uni Verse's Diplomat, which is a</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:553px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>avoid embarrassment and misunder </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:565px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>multi lingual chat client, shares the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:565px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>standings and perhaps even legal dif </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:579px; left:81px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>What's</b></i> <i><b>Available</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:577px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>same Barcelona engine as Power</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:577px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>ficulties.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:589px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Translator Pro. The methods of using</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:589px; left:478px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>To give you a flavour of the quality,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:601px; left:95px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>There are about a dozen vendors</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:601px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>these two programs are totally differ </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:601px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>take a look at the two examples shown</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:613px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>active in the language translation mar </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:613px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>ent but, for a given language pair, the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:613px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>in Figures 1 to 3, and 4 to 6. One is</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:624px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>ket, offering a wide choice of products</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:624px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>actual translation will be identical.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:624px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>journalistic, the other technical. In each</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:636px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>and services. These fall into two broad</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:636px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>case you will see the automatic trans </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:648px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>groups.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:650px; left:273px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>Quality</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:648px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>lation, along with a rendition by a hu </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:660px; left:95px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>The first consists of off the shelf</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:660px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>man translator. Judge for yourself</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:672px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>programs, designed to run on desktop</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:672px; left:287px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Despite undoubted improvements</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:672px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>whether</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:672px; left:515px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:672px; left:541px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>machine</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:672px; left:592px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>translation</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:684px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>PCs. They range from simple utilities</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:684px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>in quality, automatic language transla </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:684px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>would be acceptable, and how much</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:696px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>which translate the contents of the clip </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:696px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>tion is still no substitute for a skilled</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:696px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>editing would be needed to make it</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:707px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>board, to sophisticated tools for trans </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:707px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>professional translator. At best, the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:707px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>completely intelligible.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:719px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>lating formatted documents, either</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:719px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>output from these programs will be</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:731px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>interactively or in batches. Examples</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:731px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>stilted and ungainly but still perfectly</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:733px; left:465px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>Preparation</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:743px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>include Universal Translator Deluxe</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:743px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>intelligible. At worst, it will be gibber </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:755px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>from Language Force, and Globalink</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:755px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>ish. Of course, the quality that you re </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:755px; left:478px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Even without these examples, it will</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:767px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Power Translator Pro. More on these,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:767px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>quire when translating your product</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:767px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>be obvious that the quality of the trans </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:778px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>including contact details, later.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:778px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>brochure for distribution to your cus </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:778px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>lation depends heavily on the quality</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:790px; left:95px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>The other group can best be de </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:790px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>tomers is totally different from that re </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:790px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>of the original. You can do a great deal</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:802px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>scribed as Internet based. One exam </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:802px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>quired in order to allow you to make</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:802px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>to improve the results if you keep the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:814px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>ple is Alta Vista's Babel Fish, which lets</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:814px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>vague sense of someone else's bro </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:814px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>needs of the translation engine in mind</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:826px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>you type a paragraph into a Web page</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:826px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>chure.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:826px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>while you are preparing the original</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:838px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>and have it translated on the fly. The</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:838px; left:287px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>To use a translation program effec </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:838px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>text.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:849px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>same technology powers the Translate</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:850px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>tively you have to treat the result as a</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:849px; left:478px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>In particular, if you write the text</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:861px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>links which you might have noticed on</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:861px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>first draft. In almost every case, it will</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:861px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>using short, active voice sentences,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:873px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Alta Vista's search results page. Other</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:873px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>need polishing by a person who knows</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:873px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>free of idioms, slang and ambiguities,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:885px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>products let you translate text in chat</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:885px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>the target language and, ideally, who</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:885px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>you will always get better results than</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:897px; left:81px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>rooms, add translation features to your</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:897px; left:273px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>is also familiar with the subject matter.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:897px; left:465px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>if it consists of convoluted passages</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:940px; left:57px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Update 128 (June 1999) page 13</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:940px; left:613px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>File: B1135.1</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:937px; left:266px' class="ft4"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>PC</b> <b>Support</b> <b>Advisor</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" class='nav' style='left: 357px; top: 1010px'><pre>Next page <a href='page0002.htm'>></a></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:1050px; left:50px' class="ft4"><pre><b><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial">New!</font><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial Narrow"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">The best sites for quality <a href="http://www.inkjet-printer-cartridges.org">inkjet printer cartridges</a> and the best sites for <a href="http://www.cheap-inkjet-cartridges.com">cheap inkjet cartridges</a></font></b></pre></span></body> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:1100px; left:300px' class="ft4"><pre><b><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial"><a href="../index.html">Windows Help Desk Home</a> </font></b></pre></span></body></html>