On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 03:18:44PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Seth Ackerman wrote:
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> > I've used Babelfish before for German. It yields a lot of garble, but
> > armed with a German-English dictionary, it's easy to figure out a good
> > translation, especially if you know the subject matter already. It's
> > time-consuming, though.
>
> Exactly. I know German, and I can get it into a final state faster by hand
> than by using Babelfish (although it's very handy when you don't know a
> language). I was wondering if there wasn't something higher level by now
> that was good enough that professional translators could profitably use it
> to save time. Probably something that costs money.
>
> Michael
>
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