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* Try typing the words "define: word" into the Google box. It will show you definitions that are available online. This also works for other languages than English.
 
* Try typing the words "define: word" into the Google box. It will show you definitions that are available online. This also works for other languages than English.
 
* [http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/corpora/corpora.html Corpus resources: Corpora and electronic text databases] to lists of available corpora and descriptions of individual corpus projects.
 
* [http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/corpora/corpora.html Corpus resources: Corpora and electronic text databases] to lists of available corpora and descriptions of individual corpus projects.
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Lingu@net World Wide --> Multilingual centre for language teaching and learning [http://www.linguanet-worldwide.org/lnetww/en/home.jsp]
 
Lingu@net World Wide --> Multilingual centre for language teaching and learning [http://www.linguanet-worldwide.org/lnetww/en/home.jsp]
  

Revision as of 22:13, 26 August 2011

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a great translation resource, especially for technical terms. Come across a rare animal species in a translation? Look it up on Wikipedia in English and then switch to the page in your own language (assuming it exists). This will generally give you a state-of-the-art translation. http://www.wikipedia.org/

Unit Conversion Tools

There are lots of unit conversion tools on the internet. Found one that was particularly helpful? Mention it here!

Suggested tools:

Multilingual Databases

  • InterActive Terminology for Europe incorporates all of the existing terminology databases of the EU’s translation services into one interinstitutional database containing approximately 1.4 million multilingual entries.

English Language Resources

Language Resources: Dictionaries, Terminological Glossaries and Text Corpora

Learning Languages online

Lingu@net World Wide --> Multilingual centre for language teaching and learning [1]

Transcription resources

This wiki contains a guide to transcribing talks, which may be very useful for translators working on TEDx Talks.

Language Technologies

This section is devoted to list the free language technologies which could help translators and reviewers to improve the quality of their work

Computer-Assisted Translation Tools (Translation Memories)

Machine Translation Systems

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