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1. Untersuchung survey the source text could contain unserer Untersuchung of our survey and the above sentence from the archive would have nevertheless been used If the match value is set very liberal then the sentence Das Ergebnis ist negativ ausgefallen The result was not encouraging will be treated as satisfactory and translated into English as The result was encouraging although the meaning of the sentence in German is diametrically opposite to that in English The user employing the archive should be aware of such perfidy and view the translated text attentively to avoid misunderstanding Suitable for everyday use Often the translator software was scientifically tested with the examination texts for school leaving certificates and state exams by educational counsels native speakers and also on the computer much attention was paid to confirm that the test result obtained automatically is equivalent to that obtained by the human tester 3 4 Our test see the table on page 182 is made up not of special documents but of common texts as we en counter with them in everyday life All programs were tested on the PC with the 1 2 GHz Athlon processor and 256 Mb RAM Almost all tested programs exist in various versions Ver sions with the sentence ar chive included were consid ered in more detail The de velopers web sites contain tables with meticulous listing2. Seems attractively self explanatory but after the word ascetic appeared more ap propriate For example the Format menu contains only font selection and paragraph alignment center left right It is more convenient to select For bilingual search Reverso has Web View customized version of Internet Explorer taking over the existing settings and Favorites bersetzen http www lake district gov ub alindex cim7header_jd L menu_d 63F9D302 ABA7 49A4 9 7 Englisch Deutsch Allgemeine Internet distant v 9 ESI El postengsng microsoft Lake District National E io ct in 2003 issue 21 Test bench Full text translator EENNCZNTUNNUICLO al Systran Premium DEM xit GS cvaenos B O contains Datei Name Pad Grobe Status Za Spachenpsm Worterbucher emaren MultiTranslate 12 D Abkuetz bt U O laenger Webers 860 Byte Englisch gt Deutsch ili H Di ER re Utility working on oan Engksch the background Be Abkuerz bt Deutsch nr 5 EMstbe E sides it is possible B ciam ora TOR to set the translation De Toate be i direction separately bigeye Mono for each file D 8rief bt MD Handbuch rtf 7 esszett tst l BE Abkuerz rtf S e wo bu test rtf I zzi 2 Dateityp Ale Dokumente und Daten Abbrechen s i Pr sentabonen pot hrehten mag Dstart d a A G ssr mitans
3. may appear promt Liebe Ulrike Gerade Der vergr erte Ge ein schnelles promptes brauch E Mail um Sie in von englischen Kredit formiert ber unsere w rtern Kreditworten sp testen letzten Pro kann nicht auf Deutsch dukte und Entwicklun soviel eines Segens dem gen zu behalten englischen Sprecher Lautsprecher sein wie es erscheinen kann Personal Liebe Ulrike Nur eine Es kann sein dass der Translator schnelle E Mail um Sie gesteigerte Gebrauch zu behalten informierte von englischen ber unsere letzten Lehnw rtern auf Deutsch Produkte und Entwick nicht ebenso viel von lungen einer Gnade zum eng lischen Sprecher ist wie er erscheinen kann Reverso Liebe Ulrike Gerade Der vergr erte Ge ein schnelles EMail um brauch von englischen Sie informiert ber un Darlehen W rtern kann sere nicht auf deutsch soviel sp testen letzten einer Gabe dem eng Produkte und Entwick lischen Sprecher sein lungen zu behalten wie es erscheinen kann Systran Liebe Ulrike Gerade Der erh hte Verbrauch 175 ein schnelles email zum Sie zu halten in formiert ber unsere neuesten Produkte und Entwicklungen der englischen Darle henw rter auf Deutsch kann m glicherweise nicht so viel einer Gabe zum englischen Laut sprecher sein wie er erscheinen kann Finally we checked the retention of various formats and fonts of the source text as well as the inserted tables dia grams references and page numberin
4. promt dem onstrated the average quality of the translation as English German so German English As for the integration with Mi crosoft Word promt proved to be the only fully suitable program among those tested the target text contained cor rectly translated and formatted references with related text as well as the page numbering including the date promt Professional pro vides the plug in for the Adobe family software enabling PDF format texts translation The availability of the sentence archives is clear advantage of the software even though now it is delivered with empty data base Practical accessories like Backup facility speak for many useful ideas of the de velopers To facilitate mainte nance in the future versions the developers are to practi cally combine these accesso ries as well as modify and expand the context Help Langenscheidt T1 Professional 5 0 For the English German lan guages the Langenscheidt software is offered in three variants Standard Standard 176 Copyright by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH Co KG Publishing and copying only with permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag EL Satzarchiv Sucheanfrage fake J v Automat WortiGuellsatz C Wort Zielsatz C Fuzzy Quelsatz C Attribute v Aktiv Sucl Can you take me now K nnen Sie mich gleich bedienen Don t take any chances Riskiere nichts How long does it take to get there Ho
5. Great Britain Indeed in the school had six years of English lesson Dear Sir or Madam am interested in an intensive language course in Great Britain In school although had six years English lessons Dear ladies and gentlemen am interested in an intense language course in Great Britain Certainly in the school had six year English lesson Ladies and Gentlemen am inter ested in an intensive language course in Great Britain In the school I had six years English in struction ct in 2003 issue 21 Copyright by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH Co KG Publishing and copying only with permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag Test bench Full text translator T1 Teures Der vergr erte Ge In August 42 were Dear Sir or Madam am interested lt U Ulrike gt Dass ein brauch von englischen measured repeatedly in an intense Sprachkurs in Great schnelles lt U email gt Darlehensw rtern in in the shadow Da Britain In the school had indeed dich gerade ber un Deutsch A Deutsch Details Abb 6 sehen six years of English instruction sere sp testen Erzeug Deutschem gt darf nicht nisse und Entwicklun soviel eines Segens zum gen informiert h lt englischen Sprecher sein wie es erscheinen kann Developer PpRomT linguatec GmbH Softissimo Systran Langenscheidt abitz com Jourist linguatec Softline AG Heisoft Langenscheidt Handel roproBns www abitz com www personal www softline de www he
6. Informatik Spektrum 26 2 2003 S 94 102 2 www alamax de service ueberblick4 php3 3 www nist gov speech tests mt doc ngram study pdf 4 www cs mu oz au acl P P02 P02 1040 pdf Soft Link 0 321 174 c t Time needed for translation of 60 pages sec c t in 2003 issue 21 Test bench Full text translator Looking for all round talent When translating from English into German the test candidates should have fight the abbreviations data and adequacy using the set of sentences and then prepare the text more accurately for the subtleties of the translation Finally there was a task of translating the e mail message with description of a fictitious software Wondersoft XXL In the opposite direction English German the tested programs were offered the sentences with widely used abbreviations and dates as well as a letter and several pages of the manual The letter to the English linguistic school deals with the proposals of the intensive courses The manual text begins with a table of contents from possibly good translation for the tested program it was impor tant to convey the numeric system as well as insertions and tabs Source and target texts English E mail English subject text Original Dear Ulrike Just a The increased usage of quick email to keep you English loan words in informed about our lat German may not be as est products and devel much of a boon to the opments English speaker as it
7. The German manual including the detailed list of keywords in the end is intro duced only in the PDF format and there is no online Help there Personal Translator 2002 Office Plus The translator software from Linguatec is also introduced in the Home variant for the be ginners the more advanced versions for one user are called Office and Office Plus If the Microsoft Word inter face and the availability of the sentence archives matter then the Plus version tested here is the right choice to recom mend When just installed it contains 1400 general phrases for German English transla tion for English German translation there are 1138 common phrases and sen tences provided In our test the Personal Translator produced relatively better results compared to the others The quality of the German English translation of the test files granted this soft ware the 1 place as for Eng lish German the translation was of average quality In E G translation the program left many abbreviations unproc essed despite that both mes sages and linguistic texts were translated very well In our test file in the DOC format the graphics tables page numbering and references were retained though the text of the reference was remained in German It took quite a lot of time for the program to proc ess the test file Large size files are worth diving into smaller pieces and the Background translation op tion of
8. Those who have the electronic dictionaries from Langen scheidt may want to consider T1 in more detail On the other hand promt is easier to master but it is intuitive Personal Translator which is the easiest program If one can renounce sentence archives then Reverso is also in the range along with the 3 variants of the mentioned pro grams With this software a beginner can achieve good results The translation quality in the test was good but Re verso abilities were limited as of affecting the translation process Systran seems to be more suitable for patented networks than for the PC For the sake of feasibility all developers provided plug ins as for the Microsoft Office components so for those of the Internet Explorer Here ess would often mean more Instead of providing more or less operable links with maximal number of the programs the developers should have first optimized the work with Word where only promt demonstrated perfect performance When translating web sites all participants of the test com pete a with the translation service of Google From the linguistic point of view the re sult is often just satisfactory or grotesque but it is easy to use and the page layout is not ruined Only Reverso and promt demonstrated the best results in the test dwi Literature 1 Hermann Ney Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Der statistische Ansatz bei Spracherkennung und Sprachpbersetzung
9. ergonomic requirements Results None of the tested programs can supplement lack of Eng lish language knowledge Only the simple sentences without linguistic traps were translated absolutely correctly by all ap plications The problems begin where slightly rusty school English fails Of course all tested programs did translate our short letter to a foreign language school but not with out inadvertent comic effect and a few blunders One would hardly wish to make business abroad in such a style Those who translate texts oc casionally can do it better manually indeed decent re sults need such a profound preparatory work and polishing that use of the computer saves no time All this is arguable though if the user is interested only in gen eral sense of a document All these program tests allowed to coarsely find out if English inquiry of the product was worth developing and whether there would be market de mand for them The translator systems may be really interesting for the pro fessional who often translate commonly used texts First of all it is the sentence archive that helps most when user guides or manuals are to be translated where standard phrases are not uncommon Such are offered by the full versions of promt Langen scheidt T1 and Linguatec Per sonal Translator While promt starts from blank page the archives of T1 and Personal Translator already supported with sentence pairs
10. fertig wenn du bist Wir werden es vom Ohr spielen Ich hoffe darauf dass es keine befestigten Schn re gibt Warum f hrst du mich immer von der Nase Was er einen Hammer braucht f r ist er alle I don t need any hele cic u details by heart I don t bel e talking through his mmu Good luck for the ne crossed He is so cute he re What s wrong Your 1 fiddle 1 Eintrag gefunden After ten hours at t called it a day Let us Actually talk about it M20 Lenpanecheldts eHendw rtebuchEnalsch 00 You must be very bre cage start BE D Langenscheidt r1 ver lation from German The func tional range of the main appli cation is rather scanty but the existing functions are very rationally positioned in the menu so even the beginners find it easy to master the pro gram Here is also introduced the useful option of saving the source and target texts to gether in one document When the test file was opened in the DOC format created in Word 2002 its initial format was almost com pletely lost The tables graphics references and page numbering were lost Transla tion of same file in the RTF format took rather long time and there were also mistakes Lake District Nat Park Authority WebView Datei Bearbeiten Ansicht Favoriten Thema bersetzung Einstelkingen Hife 32934 9222 Bor http www laka district gow uklal ndex cfm header ide 15me
11. GmbH Co KG Publishing and copying only with permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag Test bench Full text translator p Office 99 home 49 Stand 159 Profess 299 Office 99 Combination Standard 459 Stand Plus 209 issue Expert 599 Office Plus 249 Eng French Professional Profess 299 398 1159 177 ct in 2003 issue 21 Copyright by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH Co KG Publishing and copying only with permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag
12. S ffnen Bau both on the icon bar The pro gram Help is also scanty the user cannot search by key words and obtains no assis tance when pressing F1 The translation performance of Systran turned out to be good in the test and the soft ware occupied the second place as in E G so in G E translations The program translated Herr Dr Meller as Dr Mueller not as Mister Dr miller like the other test participants When translating the letter from German the sense was mostly retained but the program encountered with certain difficulties in translating composite words The standard version of Systran failed with the 60 pages of the RTF file the lat ter was loaded but during translation a system failure of Systran occurred Fortunately the Premium variant has the so called MultiTranslate Utility the user can employ to make up a list of any files to be later translated as a batch Apart from TXT RTF and DOC also the HTML PPT MSG and XLS formats are allowed In this case the translation of both files was not only quick but also problem free either 178 Copyright by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH Co KG Publishing and copying only with permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag The speed and quality of the translation are self ever the software may be consid ered obsolete The new Ger man spelling has not been introduced into the dictionary yet and the control panel does not meet the contemporary
13. Test bench Full text translator To process various texts equally well the software translating manuals operating instructions E mails or web pages should possess the quality of pantophagy For this purpose the user s skill is invaluable he machine translation practices total to decades While the current language recognition software often work based on statistics the major part of the translator applications are based on the rules they interpret the sen tences from the linguistic point of view The thing is that most difficulties occur when poly semantic words are to be translated For example in German the homonym Schimmel may denote as a white horse so thin greenish coating on stale products and this is but one of the problems to be adequately translated Often the differences are much subtler Depending on 174 Copyright by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH Co KG Publishing and copying only with permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag the context the English verb to take corresponds as to the German verb holen Atem holen to take a breath so to bring meaning to deliver I ll take you to the station to say nothing of such construc tions as take away back off on over etc The polysemy could be tackled with though using the statistic methods operating on the probability values For example for the word Schimmel the probability of translations as ho
14. as Ergebnis der Untersuchung ist positiv ausgefallen The result of the survey was encouraging Some programs have filled archives the user can supple ment the others are supplied with empty databases In both cases by means of thorough corrections and archiving his work the user can constantly improve the translator soft ware But he should learn how to use the archive of the sen tences The level of similarity of the source sentence and a variant from the archive is determined by letter or word comparison Usually if the source sentence and that from the archive are fully identical 175 Copyright by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH Co KG Publishing and copying only with permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag The latest achievement of promt is the Plug in for Acrobat Reader which translates texts from the docu ments in the PDF format PABA as En gt vile oks FOE gt me m gll zz Adobe Acrobat Re az Using the work c 7 Frequently Aske Legal Notices Kil Dokument Werkze Zusatzmodole SKN U Lesezeichen v L Contents L What s new in A L Opening PDF do L Printing PDF doc Nstart 1 8 Acrobat Reader Ad the translation is done via the archive The user can reduce the level of match down to about 80 In this case a sentence from the archive will be translated matching only for 80 Thus instead of the
15. ated interfaces Reverso Pro 5 0 After installation and manda tory restart the Reverso user finds three new icons on the desktop PROMT L WebView and QTrans QTrans is in tended for quick translation of the unformatted texts In the split window of the browser WebView the user can see the original page and its translated variant The translation quality varies according to complexity of the template Nevertheless WebView does not ruin the page layout and works rather quickly Those preferring the original Internet Explorer will find the additional translator buttons there The control panel of the main application PROMT L looks very much like the PROMT software In the test the Reverso program was the winner in translation into Ger man but the last one in trans 177 Copyright by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH Co KG Publishing and copying only with permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag The sentence ar chives of the Personal Translator from Lin guatec recognizes 50 idioms with the verb take Grass is alvays gre I am ready when you We will play it by I hope there are no Why do you always lead me by the nose What does he need a hammer for he is all thunbs Datei Bearbeiten Ansicht TL Format Hite DehSocmeats o B 7 vl Ale Sse iE e Deutsch u Joi E lQuelex 2 Zietex 2 Quelle Ziel Listen Ales ear strings attached Gras ist immer gr ner auf der anderen Seite Ich bin
16. atively represent the source text and the target text combined with the lists of un known words in various repre sentations and offers flexible printing options For the pur pose of additional processing another useful option is the ability to save the source text and the target text in a table where the source and trans lated paragraphs are posi tioned side by side The translation settings in promt enable to connect to the packages later assigned to certain themes For example the manual type of text as a list of actions can be assigned first the formal You second the translation of the English imperative as polite infinitive Please turn the switch in the start position and third the user compiled technical ar chive of the sentences It is necessary to select a lot of functions in the menus Theme AM Associated Memory and Translation and there are cases when neither comprehensive man c t in 2003 issue 21 Test bench Full text translator Translator software is powerless to puns or irony The electronic edition of the Langenscheidt pocket dictionary integrated into T1 can provide competent help ual nor online Help can be useful When the main appli cation is mastered the follow ing sections of the program are worth considering the software comes with the Dic tionary Editor Archive Man ager Backup facility and the mini translator PromtX When tested
17. average which may explained by scant stock of abbreviations With the spe cialized text in English the software demonstrated better result the Using dialog box T1 can be activated configuration and deactivated in certain components of Microsoft Of fice If the option is checked then the additional buttons and the new T1 menu appears in Word Excel Powerpoint and Outlook There is also a plug in for Access Those who use the T1 services from one of the Office applications may later discover some remnants on the hard disk In the course of work with Word the user is not asked anymore whether he would like to save his files the plug in blocks this mes sage and saves up to 3 files with the target texts as well as with various additional infor mation in the folder of the source text If a mail is trans lated in Outlook then the copy of the source message is saved on the IMAP server The transmission of a HTML file via the main application left the target text as the RTF file unlike in the Internet Explorer where it was transmitted very accurately The electronic version of the pocket English German Langenscheidt dictionary where search is performed using T1 Lookup also refers to the software The small search program can also be connected to the other elec tronic dictionaries from Langenscheidt The users having one or more of such special dictionaries installed can perform search in them from T1
18. ch version of Personal Translator the Langenscheidt software not only for French and Russian but also for Spanish newly ct in 2003 issue 21 Test bench Full text translator issued The assortment of other languages needs ex panding but there are special applications dealing with ex otic languages though they lack many useful functions 2 All the candidates tested offer a translator displaying the Source text and its translation behind or beneath The base case also includes plug ins for the office programs As for the unconnected applications you first have to copy the text into the clipboard before translat ing it All programs support Internet Explorer and some even Netscape Navigator The automatic recognition of the source language may help the active users in their work The synchronization function helps to navigate the bigger documents when you click of the source text posi tion the cursor in the transla tion area goes to the corre sponding position in the text of the translation and vice versa A function excluding some parts of the text from the translation helps avoid trans lating for example Musterstadt in postal ad dresses as sample city or pattern town All functions of the programs being tested are given in the comparison table on page 183 The programs that employ translation memory used to be the most flexible These are data bases for pairs of sen tences such as D
19. fered by the program can also be useful The user can supplement the sentence archives of the Personal Translator as he likes To find an optimal per sonal setting the user has to experiment with the offered options For example a 60 match in the test turned out to be a rather liberal match value the translation of the test sentence Grass is always ct in 2003 issue 21 Test bench Full text translator greener on the other side with the use of the installed archive became Are there still places on an earlier flight Obviously the comparison algorithm found linguistic similarity between absolutely different sentences The HTML files are trans lated only via batch process ing Besides usually reliable automatic recognition of the translation is not working here Despite that the pro gram recognized correctly the meaning of the liesmich html test file The language of the page is possibly German its second part was interpreted really cute If the translation direction is set manually then HTML works well However no reference links are re tained within the HTML file Due to informative manual perfect online Help integrated editor recognizing outdents and millimeter exact leading Personal Translator may be treated as really powerful translating tool Sometimes working with Windows Office XP the program buzzed Hopefully the next version of the good translator system will feature more sophistic
20. g A few random tests helped us to check the knowledge of the old and new German spelling as well as differences of British and American word usage The tested programs also should have translated a 60 pages RTF file on time If a program had the plug in for text processing table calculation or web browser these features were also tested When the translation quality was estimated each free and easy statement clear in the target text brought the partici and in the text part it is divided into the numbered pieces Apart pant 1 point the translations of the best quality gained ad ditional points The following table demonstrates the ability of the contemporary translator systems and the need of their improvement Abbreviations Units Im August wurden mehrfach 42 im Schatten gemessen For details see fig 6 In August 42 were measured repeatedly in the shade F r Details sieh Feige 6 42 were repeatedly measured in the shade in August F r Details sehen Sie Fig 6 In August 42 were measured repeatedly in the shade F r Details sieh Abb 6 In August 42 in the shade were measured several times F r Details fig 6 sehen Letter in German Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren Ich interessiere mich f r einen In tensiv Sprachkurs in Gro britan nien In der Schule hatte ich zwar sechs Jahre EnglischUnterricht Dear ladies and gentlemen am interested in an intensive linguistic course in
21. isoft de www langen www jourist de translator de scheidt de 0 30 68 47 290 0 89 89 66 640 07 81 92 93 222 02 21 94 26 73 33 0 18 05 23 23 57 0 40 21 09 82 90 Windows 95 to XP Windows 95 to XP Windows 98 to Windows 98 to XP Windows 98 to XP XP User s manual Online Helpicontexthelp F1 dt dt v dt dt v dt engl v engl dt dt dt Speech output v v Word RD iV v v v v ExcellPowerPoin Access ve n vivi vivi viviv Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator vit viv vi viv vi Outlook 7 7 v v v v L I viv v lt lt lt lt l lt I l v v v v v lt l lt lt l lt lt l lt Automatic recognition of source language si v v Synchronize function word wise phrase by phrase in paragraphs phrase by phrase Expulsion of text passages from translation v v v v Time limit per sentence v Possibility of translation process cancelation v v v v Views Source Target both others v v v IvI Iviv IVl viviviv Print options Target Source both unrecognized words v v v v viv viviviv viviviv Send target text to Mailclient v v Maximum number of undos 1 1 1 gt 50 gt 50 Possible importoftermlists v v Estimation 0000000000000 Installation options t t Translation r Programoperation N 176 c t in 2003 issue 21 Copyright by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag
22. nu Ic for the references and page numbering were lost The Ex cel Plug in on the contrary worked perfectly well The dictionary is unaware of the new rules of German spelling it does not under stand the word essenziel or writes the verb nummeriert with one m By the time this article was approved for pub lishing it was found out that Reverso was implemented only as the combined Eng lish French edition Systran 4 0 The translator system from Systran is the old timer among the tested programs The be RER 302 ABA7 49A4 9864C9EBOSEBUF5S Protustorie Hock Art in the Lake District In 1999 two mor naw archaeological sies were found i ihe UReweter wd Langis vales ve ch hem added oritic anth to the evidence for ey piretsisorie acteeby nthe wea In tive Lileweter example the carvings comprime a sene of cunt and inan 120 Langerscredts eHandvertertuch Ergisch dures I 1150 Englisch gt Deutsch JE 120 Hw Englisch E D p oan IB I find che dumps s Plural be in the dumps F down oder deprimiert sein E us ginning of this software initially developed for high performance computers goes back for more than 50 years It has been used for decades in the European Union and is hidden behind many links in the Internet marked for exam ple as Click here for transla tion and for widely used lan guages in the translation func tion of Google At first sight the menu bar
23. of the differences among the versions They compile the software reference list for this article with the web sites where you can test the trans lator skill of the software in the online mode promt Professional So far the Russian manufac turer PROMT cooperated with the Softissimo company from Paris Their Reverso product also works with the translator system developed in St Pe tersburg The market was di vided the French company was responsible for develop ment and sale of the English German and French German translators Now the ways of the two companies seem to be separated and moreover they became competitors at least Pre ape ryoorru EEITDTETE Windows or Command L Mac OS lal xi l xi Printing PDF documents To print a PDF document 1 To select nonadjacent pages or specify a print area do either of the follow in the Thumbnails palette You can C thumbnails to select nonadjacent p lect the graphics select tool y an to print ting options The available options printer driver documentation for de of copies and other options and idownload the complete version of email E 17 46 regarding the English German language pair The profes sional version includes the sentence archive in the Ex pert version the developer additionally installed the termi nology manager as well as TRADOS translator database interface The main application con sists of the editor that can al tern
24. rse could be higher due to immediate proximity to the words trot or gallop On the other hand if the word appeared near such words as cheese or sausage then another meaning would have been determinant Nowadays the adherents of statistic methods and those of methods based on the rules really fight for the true faith Some experts are sure though that the future ma chine translation idea would not do without statistic proc esses 1 But the statistics is far from the software so far Instead it is the user who is to take up the whole of the deli cate work Our choice of the candi dates among all was gov erned by the fact of their ability to influence the translation Thus along with the system dictionary they should have provided the user s dictionar ies where the user could save special terms on his favorite themes The following five programs that came to our test provide sufficient user partici pation promt Professional from PROMT Personal Translator 2002 from lingu atec Reverso Pro 5 0 from Softissimo Systran 4 0 from Systran company and T1 5 0 from Langenscheidt The new version of the earlier Lernout amp Hauspie Produkt Power Translator should have come out as Logomedia Power Translator but was not ready before this article was printed We tested the versions for English German translation Apart from all promt pro vides a version for Russian there is the Fren
25. w long does the crossing take Wie lange dauert die berfahrt 30 Satzpaare gefunden Are you able to take a joke E Verstehen Sie Spa Arch phredtm Benutzerkennung LES Datum 2002 03 27 14 37 35 Attribute Speicher Tii je Wie lange braucht man um dorthin zu kommen Schlie en Hite i N Plus and the professional edi tion tested here the one with the translation memory T1 stands for Translation ar chives The software is deliv ered with two archives Busi ness with 5200 sentence pairs and Idiom with almost 71 000 entries the user can create or import additional entries on his own Among the business entries there are patterns for business letters Some of them are very spe cific e g Als Hersteller von vollautomatischen Waschmaschinen haben wir einen groflien Bedarf an elektrischen Motoren von 0 1 bis 0 5 PS together with the English match Being the manufacturer of the fully automatic laundry washers we are in constant need of electric motors 0 1 to 0 5 h p Mostly however the suitable general formulations are considered in the form they are used in modern correspondence The software failed to translate correctly the phrase Intensiv Sprachkurs inten sive language course whereas there were no prob lems with the correct wording Intensivsprachkurs according to Duden The overall quality of translation made by T1 during the test was below the
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