Tag Archives: Translation

Yamli’s Dynamic Translator Project

Written by jessica. Posted on March 25, 2010. Filed under Tech & the Arabic Language. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
Yamli's dynamic translator lets you type, translate, and edit in near real-time.
Yamli has launched a tool that lets you edit the machine translation almost as you type. Based on Google’s translation API and consisting of a simple set up of two side-by-side boxes, users type in the original language in the left-hand box and watch as the machine translation is generated in real time on the [...]

Guides to Twitter Activism and Cross-Posting Now Available in Arabic

Written by jessica. Posted on September 20, 2009. Filed under Participatory Media Literacy, Strategy & Technics. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
Today, SMEX is ecstatic to be releasing the Arabic translations of two excellent social media guides for activism. The first guide is Cross-Posting for Advocacy, developed by Sami ben Gharbia from Global Voices. The guide is a six-page overview of the utility of cross-posting and instructions on how to cross-post between some of the most common [...]

Getting Everybody Talking in a Multilingual Crowd

Written by jessica. Posted on May 26, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Translation of the web is all the rage these days. When you think about it, it’s kind of strange that the rage didn’t happen sooner, but that probably has lots to do with technical aspects of machine translation that I can’t begin to imagine. The fact remains that, over the past year or so, all kinds [...]