WWW::Babelfish, version .11
STATUS
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This is ALPHA software; use at your own risk.
Comments, bug reports, patches etc. are appreciated.
DESCRIPTION
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This module is a simple perl front-end to the Babelfish translation
server. It's more fun than useful, but it might have a place in
IRC/talk clients or perhaps a translating web proxy. It makes an
attempt at breaking longer pieces of text up into chunks that
Babelfish can handle and then reassembling them.
I think the Babelfish server itself is a wonderfully audacious hack
and much more could be done along these lines, especially if there was
some sort of user feedback mechanism. There's a great free software
project here for someone who knows something about linguistics (not
me).
INSTALLATION
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This module needs the following modules, all available from CPAN:
HTTP::Request (in the libwww-perl bundle)
LWP::UserAgent (in the libwww-perl bundle)
HTML::TokeParser (in the libwww-perl bundle)
IO::String
After unpacking the tar file, do the usual:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
There is embedded POD documentation in Babelfish.pm
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Brian Raven <brianr@liffe.com> Patch to fix warning when
source text doesn't start with
whitespace.
Peter Tirsek <peter@tirsek.com> Patch to fix bug in whitespace
handling at beginning of
paragraph AND new Babelfish
URL and format.
Olivier Scherler <olivier.scherler@urbanet.ch>
Patch for subtle whitespace
handling bug.
Brett T Warden <bwarden@wgz.com> Patch for handling non-roman
translations.
Many many thanks also to Wolfgang Schlueschen
<wolfgang.schlueschen@philips.com> and Daniel van Balen
<vdaniel@trompo.com> who simultaneously submitted patches for the new
Babelfish URL and format.
COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Daniel J. Urist. All rights reserved. This
package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
--
Daniel J. Urist
durist@world.std.com
