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What is Site
Translator? What can you do with Site
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'Site Translator'
is a powerful translation tool which brings the
whole world at your doorstep breaking all the
language barriers. You are no more restricted by
the languages known to you. |
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Site
Translator provides you with the following: |
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Site
Translation: Translation of an entire
website containing HTML, asp, aspx and XML
pages from a source to a target language. |
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URL
Translation: Browsing a page and translating
its contents. |
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How is Machine
Translation (Site Translator) different from
website localization? |
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Machine translation
is the automatic translation of human language
by computers. With the advent of the World Wide
Web and the ongoing boom in international
commerce, there is an increasing need for quick
and inexpensive translation methods. More
companies are turning to machine translation as
a viable alternative to the traditionally costly
and time-consuming human translation option. |
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Unlike machine
translation or plain human text translation,
localization is the process of adapting text and
cultural content to specific target audiences in
specific locations. The process of localization
is much broader than just the linguistic process
of translation. Thus cultural, content and
technical issues such as graphics must also be
taken into account. |
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Site Translator |
Web Site Localization |
| Translation
of Graphical Elements |
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| Translation
of Hidden Text |
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| Translation
of Dynamic Content |
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| Best
Translation Accuracy |
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| Hard Coded
HTML |
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| Translation
of Content updates |
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How
accurate is Site Translator? |
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The ambiguity of
the human language, when considered in a
cultural context, makes it impossible to get
100% accurate machine translation. Site
Translator is the best available machine
translation tool. We select the best machine
translation programs available for our service.
The Translation Memory feature helps you to
customize the process and improve accuracy. |
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What is
the Translation Memory feature? How does it help
me? |
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It is a
well-established fact that machine translation
is not very accurate because it is impossible
for computers to understand the fine nuances of
languages like we do. But machine translation
can be greatly enhanced with the help of human
intervention. |
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Translation Memory
in Site Translator is like a personalized
dictionary where you can edit and add phrases.
Before going to a language server for
translation, Site Translator searches for a
matching text in Translation Memory. So you can
add the translation for frequently used phrases
and words. You can even customize existing
records in the memory to improve accuracy.
Translation Memory is enriched with every
translation in the sense that new records are
added. |
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What are the different
source to destination language translations
supported by Site Translator? |
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There are 14
language translations supported by Site
Translator. They have been listed below: |
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English-German |
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English-French |
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English-Spanish |
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English-Italian |
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English-Portuguese |
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English-Dutch |
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French-English |
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German-English |
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German-French |
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French-German |
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Dutch-English |
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Portuguese-English |
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Spanish-English |
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Italian-English |
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What do I
need to do to translate an asp.net site? |
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For translating an
entire asp.net site you need to include the
translated pages in an asp.net project and build
the site . If you have an existing website,
simply include the translated pages in the site
by providing links to the translated page. |
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What does "Consider
User Specified Tags only" imply in Site
translation? |
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The meaning of
‘Consider User Specified Tags’ can be best
understood by considering the following XML code
snippet. |
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<Name>William</Name>
<Comments> This is a great product!!</Comments>
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While translating,
you might need only the comments to be
translated. So if you add the tag "Comment" to
the list of your user defined tags, and use the
"Consider User Specified Tags only" option, then
only the content between the Comment tags will
be translated.
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What all kinds of
files does "Site Translator" translate during
website translation? |
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Site Translator
translates xml, html, aspx and asp pages during
website translation. |
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What
happens to the various links on a page when a
page is translated? |
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When a Site is
translated the links on all the pages are
modified to point to the translated pages. Note
that link translation is not supported in URL
Translation. |
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How can I use site
translator to translate dynamic text (say being
retrieved from a database) through my code? |
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You just need to
execute SiteTranslator.exe with the desired
command line parameters . It would thus store
the translated text in a file whose contents can
be used by your application by performing simple
file read operations. |
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