Alta Vista -- full-text translation

[Joe Barker]

As near as I could observe, the translation is only the first page or 
so.  Is there a way to get the rest translated?
Joe Barker
jbarker at library.berkeley.edu

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Charles P. Hobbs wrote:

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> I've used it on a few pages. Not too shabby for machine translation,
> although certain idiomatic expressions don't translate well (of course).
> But it does seem to point you in the right direction.
> 
> I'd like to see them add Russian, Chinese and Japanese in the near future
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> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Shirl Kennedy wrote:
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> > Not sure how long this has been available, but it's pretty neat...
> > 
> > Systran, which makes translation software, apparently has partnered with
> > Altavista to provide real-time translation of Web pages.  You type in your
> > URL or click the "translate" button after a search, and your page is
> > translated into the language of your choice from among:  Spanish, French,
> > Italian, German, Portugese or English.
> > 
> > Server seems a bit sluggish; this is probably the shakedown cruise phase...
> > http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/
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> > Shirl Kennedy
> > Internet Waves columnist
> > Information Today
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