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Happy New Year!

I just posted an update on our blog about our plans for early 2008. Thanks for contributing to WWL. We have users in almost 150 countries now. We'll be releasing several new tools and an updated website in the upcoming weeks, so watch www.worldwidelexicon.org for news. Best wishes for 2008. Brian McC
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Hello everyone,

I created a group for Firelex developers and users. Firelex is our new plug in for the popular Firefox web browser. It enables people to post and edit translations to _any_ webpage, including websites that are not participating in the Worldwide Lexicon, or are unaware of its existence. We will be releasing Firelex in mid August. If you would like to test it, let me know. -- Brian
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I have worked as a free-lance translator on some interesting projects from a text in the field of insurance to business letters and an article on De Stijl, a Dutch art movement. I am not sure if a complete machine translation program would have given me good results. Continue

I have lately started to study text mining. This had led me think about text mining as a tool for lexicographers. I would love to hear from computer science specialists to see if this would be possible.
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I downloaded a free translation program named TRANSWIZ from Download.com. This is a perfect example of a dictionary translation program. It has no mechanism for resolving ambiguities. In my opinion the only virtue of this program is that a younger generation can see what my colleagues were doing in the area of machine translation.Here are some interesting transformations that take place. A: La casa blanca. B: The house white. This program has a dictionary building section but there is no way in… Continue

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