Monthly ArchiveMarch 2009



News Eckhard Bick on 27 Mar 2009

Domain specific translations

GramTrans now offers domain specific translations. Thus, certain expressions, names etc. may be translated differently if used in a technical or otherwise domain-specific context. So far, users can mark their texts as either “neutral” or belonging to the medical or university domains.

News Eckhard Bick on 19 Mar 2009

MultiGoogle – searching the net in more than one language

As of now, GramTrans offers cross-language internet searches. As a special feature, 3-way Scandinavian searches (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) are supported. Search terms will be translated before searching the net, allowing to find pages in the target language instead of, or alongside with the source language term. As opposed to ordinary translations, alternative translations or synonyms will be included in the case of ambiguous words. Chains of several words, on the other hand, will be regarded as a “mini-sentence” and subjected to ordinary translation, exploiting possible disambiguation effects between words.