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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Translation Website Clean Re-post

DIGITEK INTERNATIONAL  
 

The Arabic Web:
Tarjim.com Arabizes English Language Search Engines and Websites

Washington DC, August 9 -- Sakhr Software and Digitek International
announce free instant Website translation to Arabic at the Tarjim.com
Website. Tarjim.com translates English language text on any Internet page
into Arabic.

"We have released the site as a public service to Arabic-speaking people
all over the world," said Fahd Al-Sharekh, Sakhr's Business Development
Manager.  At the moment, the site offers English to Arabic translation. 
Sakhr intends to launch the Arabic to English service by the end of this
year.

English language Webpages on the Internet (estimated to be as much as 70%
of the Web) are now accessible to the Arabic-reading public.  Tarjim.com
also Arabizes English language search engines, such as Yahoo, Hotbot,
Lycos, and others, giving Arabic users wider access to research tools.

Tarjim.com uses the latest version of Sakhr's machine translation
engines.   Sakhr has spent 18 years developing bilingual and bidirectional
translation capabilities.  Tarjim's level of accuracy is quite high for
machine translation engines, though like any automated translation the end
result still requires human post-editing.   Tarjim.

Arabic speakers can now read, research, search, and browse the entire
corpus of English language knowledge on the Web in their own languages. 
Web surfers just type in the Internet address (URL) in their Internet
Explorer and wait for the page to appear in Arabic.   News stories, home
pages, product information, and even search engines are available
on-the-fly in Arabic.

Tarjim (an Arabic word meaning "translate) is at
<http://www.tarjim.com>http://www.tarjim.com.   Users should access the
site through Internet Explorer after first enabling the Arabic script
feature (go to View, then Encoding, on the toolbar and select Arabic) for
the browser.  The Tarjim homepage allows users to improve accuracy by
selecting specialty dictionaries for sports, military, the arts,
transportation, and other topics.  Unfortunately, Webpage graphics are not
translatable, only text is.

To use the search facilities of Yahoo, Lycos, or Hotbot, an Arab Web surfer
starts by inputting the search page (e.g. www.yahoo.com or www.hotbot.com)
into Tarjim, which then translates the Yahoo or Hotbot page and displays it
in Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Switching to Arabic input (with
Alt-Shift), the user types in an Arabic search request.  On receiving the
request, the Tarjim server translates the search item into English,
collects the results from Yahoo or Hotbot, and translates the English
language results back into Arabic before displaying them in Arabic for the
Web surfer to see.  Users see none of the intermediate steps: just the
Arabic input and the Arabic output.

For corporations and government bodies thinking of localizing their Web
content into Arabic, the Webpage translator gives a great preview of their
Arabized content.  Of course, companies using Digitek and Sakhr's
translation and localization services receive professional post-editing of
the translation to ensure the accuracy and efficacy of their Arabic
Webpages.

Sakhr Software, of Cairo, Egypt, is the Middle East’s foremost developer of
Arabic language software.  It is a leading researcher in advanced language
and speech technologies and a developer of linguistic and database search
engines.  Digitek International, like Sakhr Software a member of the
Alalamiah Group, represents Sakhr Software in North America.  
 
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