Re: Re: Babelfish Translation

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:21 am, David Costa wrote: > On Oct 6, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Ian Eure wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 11:01 pm, Davey wrote: > >> I think that > >> > >> a) this might be illegal because of: > > > > Illegal why? An examination of the site doesn't reveal any prominent > > license > > terms which would prohibit this. > > yes, I don't think is illegal either. Perhaps he should add/consider > the google translations which might also provide with a cleaner API. > AFAIK, all (most, certainly) of the machine translation services on the web use SYSTRAN as a backend. Poking around a bit reveals that the SYSTRANsoft page[1] has the same translation service, and it puts an ID attr on the result element, so it should be possible to cleanly extract the translated text with an XML/SGML parser. Unfortunately, they /do/ have t&c, one of which is: "The Services are the property of SYSTRAN. You may not, without express permission from SYSTRAN, take the results from the Services and reformat and display them." Which would seem to prohibit doing anything other than reading the translation. [1]: http://www.systransoft.com/

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