Translator Resource Links



This is a new resource for professional translators, interpretersandproofreaders. We have begun to assemble links to online dictionaries,glossaries,search engines, books, tapes, CD's and videos that will assistall of usinvolved in the business of accurate translations in all languages.We inviteyour submissions to this resource page.

We solicit your comments and suggestions, via E-Mail,forways to make this page more useful. Please keep us posted on any outdatedlinks.


Welcome to NAJIT, a non-profitorganizationdedicated to the furtherance of the
court interpreting and legal translation profession

French-English Glossary of Earth Observation and Application
(Seventh Edition) by Steve Dyson
* Over 800 entries * Separate mini-glossaries on major applications * Referencestokey source documents. Contact Steve Dyson at 101351.3226@compuserve.com

Buenos Aires Professional AssociationofLegal Translators
(Colegio de Traductores Publicosde la Ciudad de Buenos Aires)

THE SOCIETY OF TRANSLATORS &INTERPRETERS
OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)

"SoftwareInternationalizationand Localization
by T. Perinotti, E. Uren and R. Howard
Annotation: This resource gives software developers a valuable, vendor-independent
overview of what steps must be taken to make software development easy touseby people
in different cultures. The authors present all aspects of the internationalizationofsoftware,
from engineering issues involved and developers` resolutions, to logistics,roles,and
responsibilities including the software development process and hardwareaspects,
standards, and the kinds of organizations that are involved. AnnotationcopyrightBook
News, Inc. Portland, Or. This link takes you directly to BookStacks' fileforthis title!
Out thanks to T. Perinotti for submitting this resource.

ConversionFactorTables
A new site offering a wide variety of conversion tables as well as otherlinksto similar sites.

Welcome to the InternetDictionaryProject
The Internet Dictionary Project's goal is to create royalty-free translatingdictionariesthrough the
help of the Internet's citizens. This site allows individuals from all overtheworld to visit and assist
in the translation of English words into other languages.

MundoHispanoisa MOO being developed by Lonnie Turbee (aka "Colega") withthesupport of the AskERIC project at Syracuse University. Most importantly,however,MundoHispano is a community of native speakers of Spanish fromaround theworld, teachers and learners of Spanish, and computer programmers,all ofwhom volunteer their time and talent to make this a dynamic virtualworld.

AIDS Bytesisintended as an educational resource for those concerned with AIDS/HIV.AIDSBytesis an extension of The AIDS Stack, a HyperCard AIDS information projectbegunin 1987 by Michael Tidmus. This site was designed and implementedby thepartnership of Mark Swift and Michael Tidmus, Anomalous ResearchTechnologies.

Welcome to BioTech's free online BiotechnologyDictionary!This illustrated glossary contains terms associatedwith genetics and biochemistrybut also includes some terms associated withgeneral biology, chemistry,pharmacology, toxicology and medicine. We needmore illustrations for ourdictionary entries; if you hold the copyrightfor life science images andwould be willing to let us use some here, pleaselet us know.

The DiabetesDictionaryis the work of the National Institute of Diabetes andDigestive and KidneyDisease (NIDDK). Their WWW server is often very busy,so their Diabetes Dictionaryis reproduced here to provide you with anothersource of this important document.

Portions of the MolecularGeneticsGlossary text were taken directly or modified from definitionsinthe U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment document: Mapping OurGenesThe Genome Projects: How Big, How Fast? OTA-BA-373, Washington, D.C.:U.S.Government Printing Office, April 1988.

TexasMedicalAssociation / Managed Care Glossary
Welcome to the Texas Medical Association Home Page. Here, Texasphysicianswill find a wealth of information for themselves and their patients.We'llbe updating and expanding this site constantly, so if you don't findwhatyou need, check back with us again.

Medical / EducationalInternetSites
From the University of Calgary. A mind-boggling resource of medicallinks!

Martindale's HealthScienceGuide- '96
A "Multimedia Specialized Information Resource" currently containingover
29,500 teaching files, over 37,800 Medical Cases, 503 Courses/Textbooks,
over 1,600 Databases, and 9,600 (MPEG's) Movies.

Hardin MetaDirectoryof Internet Health Sources
"We list the sites that list the sites" ... Hardin Meta Directorypageshave pointers to the
most complete and frequently cited lists in each subject. For subjects notyetincluded in Hardin MD, go directly to the comprehensive index sitesthatare included in Meta Directory pages. See Hardin MD description andNewsfor more information. All links to Hardin MD are encouraged - No permissionrequired!

Center for BiomedicalInformatics,State University, Campinas, Brazil Uma realizaçãodo CentroNacional de Informações em Medicina e Biologia RedeNacionalde Pesquisa (RNP/CNPq/MCT) Núcleo de InformáticaBiomédicada Universidade Estadual de Campinas BRASIL

INTERNET DIRECTORYFORBOTANY: GARDENING
NB. Horticultural Societies are listed on a separate page, as alsoarboretaand botanical gardens, and newsgroups related to garden plants.
African Violets On-Line, by Stephen Gaudin, Texas, USA. Dedicated to themembersof the Saintpaulia genus
(Gesneriaceae) and those people who love them.
African Violet World by Richard Trout, USA. African Violet World discussestheworld's favourite house plant
(Saintpaulia, Gesneriaceae), including the African Violet FAQ, archivesofthe gesneriphiles e-mail mailing list and on-line newsletters from AfricanVioletsocieties around the world. [and this is just a small sample of whatawaitsyou at this site.]

TheVirtualGarden
A wealth of information for garden/plant terminology. We need others inlanguagepairs.

OhioStateUniversity Online Plant Database
A searchable database of 1,071 high quality images and horticultural descriptionsfor591 selected
ornamental plants. You can search for specific plants by their scientificname(genus and species), family name, or common name. Alternatively, youcanselect a category of plants and all matches will be displayed.

The University of Pennsylvania CancerCenterResource
OncoLink is partially supported by an unrestricted educational grant provided
Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Oncology, dedicated to cancer research.

Black Box GlossaryofData Communication Terms
BLACK BOX is a globally recognized brand name associated with high qualitydatacommunication and connectivity products. For the past 18 years we havebeenknown throughout the network communication industry as an innovativeproductsupplier and as a source for reliable systems solutions. From cablesandconnectors to local and wide area
networking solutions, we offer more than 6000 products. Our strength liesinour ability to provide in-depth technical support and prompt, efficientcustomerservice. We are pleased to now make the initial version of theBLACK BOXON-LINE CATALOG available on the Internet. It contains a widearray of products,technical reference information, services and functionalitythat you willfind useful in solving your data connectivity problems. Learnabout the BlackBox On-Line Catalog first or start using it to do any offollowing immediately.

Le Pont EF
Le dictionnaire Français-Anglais parlant expansif avec les contextes
Le Pont EF is possibly the best version of an English-French dictionaryonthe Web.

ARTFLProject:French-English Dictionary Form
New!! The ARTFL Project and MICRA, Inc. are developing Webster's RevisedUnabridgedDictionary (G & C. Merriam Co., 1913, edited by Noah Porter).Look upwords in a simple French English Dictionary containing about 75,000terms.

BritSpeak
English as a Second Language for Americans

Angol Szótár--Hungarian Dictionary
The dictionary was collected by Attila Vonyó (vonyoa@almos.vein.hu).Currentlyit contains more than 50,000 records. The project is supportedby the HungarianFree Software Foundation (Szabad Szoftver Alapítvány-- SSA),and the dictionary is available from almos.vein.hu/pub/ssa/szotar.The Europianmirror site is http://tpri6l.gsi.de/szotar.html

EsperantoDictionary
Welcome to the TIOS group! The Tele-Informatics and Open Systems(TIOS)group is an interdepartmental group of the Departments of ComputerScienceand Electrical Engineering of the University of Twente. The researchandeducational activities of the group are concentrated on all aspectsof thedesign, implementation and analysis of open distributed systems,as wellas their application on telematic and telecommunication systems.Researchis generally performed in multidisciplinary projects within aninternationalcontext. Since January 1994, the TIOS group participates inthe "Centrefor Telematics and Information Technology", a multidisciplinaryresearchinstitute in which seven departments of the University of Twenteparticipate.

Bangladesh:Survival Bengali
Introduction: So you are eager to learn Bengali, eh? Maybe I canhelphere. If you do wish to learn even more about our language and ourliteraturedo visit the following pages:
The Bengali Language / Bengali Literature

The Scanian Wordlist
Scanian (Skånska) is a Swedish dialect spoken in the southern partofSweden. Many people think it
sounds a bit strange, since it is very closely related to Danish, thus canitbe pretty hard to understand sometimes. So, I started to build this wordlisttomake it easier for people to understand this wonderful dialect. Enjoy...

Svensk-finsktlexikon
LEXIN Svensk-finskt lexikon
Skriv ett ord i rutan och tryck på knappen Slå upp. Om du saknartangenterför bokstäverna å, ä, ö kan du användatecknen}, {, | istället.
Försök rättstava okända ord.
Hur man använder Skolverkets lexikon.
Om Skolverkets Lexin-lexikon.
Om Skolverkets lexikon i World Wide Web.
Senast ändrad: oktober 1996 admin.skolnet@skolverket.se

Searchable dictionariesforBokmal/Nynorsk/Engelsk.
Avdeling for leksikografi ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitenskap,UiOog Dokumentasjonsprosjektet samarbeider om å kunne tilby en enkelversjonav den nyeste utgaven av Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordbokapånettet. De forrige søkbare utgavene var basert påen testdatabaseav førsteutgavene. Disse midlertidige søkeversjoneneer nåstoppet for godt.

The Multi-Lingual Field ManualforPublic Safety Professionals
This compact (208 pages) expandable field manual is compiled by author,trainerand Oregon State
Police Senior Trooper Robert Dent. Thirty of the most useful pages for publicsafetyfrom his
Complete Spanish Field Reference Manual for Public Safety Professionals,withEnglish
pronunciation phonetics, have been translated into 11 languages by the WorldTradeCenter School
of Languages - Portland, Oregon. Interpreters in the criminal courts saythisis a great reference.

Englisch <->DeutschesWörterbuch
Ein sehr einfaches Wörterbuch, das auf einer Wortliste mitca.100.000 Einträgen basiert (umfangreicheres bei LEO.ORG). Umlautekönneneingegeben werden!
Einfache Suchen mit * möglich
z.B. abschl* findet Abschluß, abschließen, abschlagen

Welcometothe Halaka/English Dictionary
This is a Halaka <-> English dictionary with over 20,000 entries.Pleaseread the background and copyright information about this dictionaryalso.

ForeignLanguageResources on the Web
This resource list, by no means comprehensive (hundreds of freshWWWpages are appearing each month), aspires to lend starting points forminingthe WWW for foreign language/culture specific resources. This isa "quality-only"index. In other words, we have sought to includeonly the best of the foreignlanguage ("foreign" for native speakersof English) Web sites outof the many that exist.

Hebrew: A Living Language
This Web site hopes to be one more modest link in this proud, long chain.Fromthe oral tradition
of early times, the clay tablets of El-Amarna, the coins and scrolls oftheBar-Kokhva period, the
printing presses of the Beck family and the "Havatzelet" newspaperinthe nineteenth century,
through radio and television in recent decades, we hope to harness our days'bestmachinery to keep
alive and cherish our language.

TheSmallUrdu Dictionary

LatinAmerican/SpanishSpeaking Countries Page
Página de Países de América Latina/Hispanohablantes

Welcome to the Internet LivingSwahiliDictionary

Yamada LanguageCenternon-English Font Archive
The Yamada Language Center maintains an archive of fonts. This page is designedtoassist users
who wish to display or type non-English fonts on their computers.

The ForeignLanguageTeaching Forum is an integrated service including thisWWW Page,
the FLTEACH@UBVM LISTSERV Academic Discussion List, and the FLTEACH Gopheratthe
State University of New York College at Cortland. FLTEACH was founded inFebruary1994 and
runs on a computer at SUNY/Buffalo. Our topic is foreign language teachingmethodsincluding
school/college articulation, training of student teachers, classroom activities,curriculum,and
syllabus design.

Intercultural E-Mail ClassroomConnections
The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) mailing
lists are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachersand
classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail
classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.

Language Links asuperresource compiled by Cecilia Falk.
Here you will find links to dictionaries, pages in relations to languages,translatingcompanies, and
organizations. The page contains the following headings: Glossaries, LinkstoGlossaries, Other
Language Pages, Organisations, Institutes, Agencies and Translator Databases,Informationfor Translators and Translation Companies.

Reference InternetResourcesat Rutgers University
A mega-resource of resource links. Spend 15 minutes bookmarkingthelinks of interest.

Languages: Human, Computer, Government
This is a web page for people interested in foreign languages, computers,andcertain
mainly US organizations. Links to various sites on these topics are providedhere...

Russian-English Dictionary of Computer Terms

Russian-English, English-Russian . Dictionary and Thesaurus of ComputerTerms.
Compiled by Druker, Druker & Sobotsinsky. Electronic Edition by YuryAvrutin.
Dictionary Lookup .

Swedish newspapersandmagazines
Affärs Världen, economy. Aftonbladet, a swedish newspaper. Aliaspublications,
Scandinavian Underground Newsletter. Dagens Industri, industry newspaper.
Edge, Sports Magazine.

Dictionaries (variedlinks)
These are some links to on-line dictionaries (in no particular order).

Research Institute for theHumanities- Reference
This WWW site is located in Research Institute for the Humanities (RIH),Facultyof Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. It is maintained bythe HumanitiesComputing and Methodology Programme in the Institute. Besidesthis WWW server,we are also running a Gopher server and an FTP server.

The PortableDictionaryof the Mouse Genome is a database for personal computersthat containsinformation on approximately 15,000 loci in the mouse, alongwith data onhomologs in several other mammalian species, including human,rat, cat, andcow, pig, sheep, dog, fox, hamster, and horse.

English toforeignlanguage dictionaries of common computing terms.
There are currently three dictionaries available - French, German and Spanish-
with more to be added later.

Electronic DictionaryofPersonal Computers
Now for the first time, the definitions from the highly acclaimed RandomHousePersonal Computer Dictionary are available in Windows help file format.forFree!

Foreign daily newspapers.Europe.
Austria:Der Standard. Vorarlberger Nachrichten. Belgium:
De Financieel-Economische Tijd. De Standaard. Het Belang van...

Word Magic Software
English Spanish Dictionaries. English Spanish Translation Software.
Thesaurus. Verb Conjugator. Connection with Microsoft Word and
WordPerfect.

Foreignlanguagenewspapers
Plenty of foreign language newspapers, especially English ones,
make getting to know states like Bulgaria, Hungary or the Czech Republicmuch
easier for anyone from abroad.

Seiko TranslatorCollection
Their translator collection is designed to help you while in business,
studying, or on vacation.

Word Translator forTravellers(for Windows)
If you are a frequent traveller who carries a laptop or palmtop computerrunning
Microsoft Windows then you definitely need Word Translator for Travellers.

ONLINE DICTIONARIESANDGLOSSARIES From here you can access the following resources:ArabicDictionary of Qur'anic Arabic Chinese English-Chinese (Big-5) EstonianEnglish-EstonianDictionary French French-English and English-French Dictionaries...etc.

KISW ReferenceDesk
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Dictionaries A.Word.A.Day - Exploring StrangeNewWords... BioTech's Biotechnology Dictionary - free, searchable onlinedictionaryof biology, chemistry and biotechnology terms. BritSpeak - Fromanorak tozebra-crossing...

Dictionaries Webliography
Dictionaries Webliography Contents: English | Foreign Languages | Technical|Indexes to Other Resources English Acronym lookup Enter an acronym andgetthe meaning. This is a relatively large list, but not as comprehensiveassome printed sources such ...


Carol Peters - RecentPublicationsMarinai, E., PETERS, C., Picchi, E. (1990). "AProject for BilingualReference Corpora," in Acta Linguistica HungaricaAkadmiai Kiad, Budapest,Vol. 41 (1-2), 1990-91, pp 1-15. Picchi, E., PETERS,C., Calzolari, N. (19...

On-line DictionariesInstitutde Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire etCellulaire
English Hypertext Webster interface. English/French Hypercube English/Frenchdictionaries: English-French dictionary. Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. DictionnaireFrançais-Anglais ( University of Chicago ). English/Ge...

Dictionaries/Vocabularies/Sauruses/Encyclopedias
Dictionaries English/Jargon: Acronyms (English Acronyms) The AlternativeDictionaries(Slang, swear wods and other 'bad' lanuage) Free On-Line Dictionaryof Computing(English) Hypertext Webster Interface (English) Internet andUnix DictionaryMerriam -...

Dictionaries TheShorterEnglish-Persian Dictionary S. Haim 1993. 3rd & revisededition,45000 entries.ISBN:0-939214-50-4 (cloth): $18.00 Excellent choicefor beginnersand everyday usage. The Shorter Persian-English DictionaryS. Haim 1975.30,000...

Dictionaries!!
German-English
Dictionary English-German und German-English (München)
Dictionary English-German und German-English (Chemnitz)
Dictionary English-German und German-English (Berlin)
Multi Lingual
ECHO - EURODICAUTOM (new interface) (English/French/German/Italian/Spanish/Danish/Dutch/Portuguese)..andsoon...

Online Dictionaries,Glossariesand Encylopedias
An annotated listing of dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias thathavesome sort of version
online or, if you will, a glossary of glossaries. All suggestions for additionsarewelcome and I
really can't think of any reason why I wouldn't add anything new as longasit resembles a
glossary, dictionary or encyclopedia, i.e. if I discriminate it'll be onthebasis of form and most
definitely not on the basis of content.

DictionariesandGlossaries
Dictionary of Human Geography. List of Selected Names and Terms found inGrolier'sEncyclopedia. Grolier's Encyclopedia. OneLook Dictionaries (Browses22 dictionariesdealing with acronyms, computers, science, technology, andgeneral use...)International Financial Encyclopaedia Oxford English Dictionary.Webster'sDictionary. Roget's Thesaurus

Education
The following sections point to actual reference materials on the Internet,aswell as
traditional sources of educational materials for the securities informationprofessional.
Dictionaries / Glossaries/Courses/Books/Other Sources

Meta-resources ontheWeb
Here's a nice collection of daily lists of new sites, big whomping searchableonlineindexes, and
other general metasites. Tacked onto the end of this page is a list of metasitesformore specific
topics in which I've got some sort of interest.

Dictionaries and Glossaries
These links are compiled and provided for your convenience. We have triedtobe as thorough as
possible but the authors do not represent that these are the only or thebestlinks or companies.

Reference (e.g.dictionaries,encyclopedias, glossaries)
Jargon File / On-line Dictionary of Computing
BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations and Acronyms

The IFCI DatabaseofExchange Traded Derivatives
Derivative Working papers /Definitions of Risk Hedging/The Derivatives laboratory
Glossary of Financial Terms/Glossary of Futures & Options Terms
Trading Financial & Agricultural commity Futures & Options

Community HospitalLibrary
WELCOME TO . . .LINKS TO DICTIONARIES AND GLOSSARIES

Dictionaries,Thesauruses,and Glossaries in the World Wide Web
This page is an index of on-linedictionaries,thesauri, and other reference works pertaining towords and phrases.Preference in selection has been given to free onlinedictionaries of highquality, useful to specialists and translators. However,downloadable andsubscription material are listed if exceptionally rare,unusually well-executed.We are now including a few inceptive word listsof languages, otherwise notrepresented in the index, as an encouragementto continued development.

Dictionaries bylanguageand more...
Compiled by Anna Mazzoldi.

Dictionariesandterminology databases
Internet terminology/Waste management terms/More glossaries
Click on animation (Netscape 2.0) or on following image to submit
English terms for translation in Greek

Dictionaries
Estonian/Multilingual computer dictionary
Small English-Estionian Networking Dictionary
Estonian-English Documents


FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Financial Resources is a collection databases, documents and World-Wide-Web
(WWW) sites on the Internet that specialize in all topics related to finance.

Terminology CollectionOnlineDictionaries
© Anita Nuopponen
Department of Communication Studies, University of Vaasa, Finland

Tools for The Computerized Trader &InvestorWall Street Directory contains over 6000 pages of informationforcomputerized traders and investors, with more than 2000 products andservicesfrom companies & institutions - located both on and off theInternet.

About Recall Translate
Recall Translate was developed in response to a need for a more flexibleand"common sense"
approach to translating. It is unique in the way it handles languages. RecallTranslate'sversatility
provides a practical framework within which any number of dictionaries canbedeveloped and
used. Dictionaries can be created to translate languages, explain terminologyanddevelop literacy
skills.

Computer InformationfromAround the World
Computing Dictionaries, Glossaries, and other Reference Materials
Computing Vendors on the Web/Electronic Mail...



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