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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Translation website

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Digitek
International, Inc.          

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<H1>The Arabic Web:</H1>
<H3 align=center style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Tarjim.com Arabizes English
Language Search Engines and Websites<o:p></o:p></H3>
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.  <o:p></o:p>
"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.<o:p></o:p>
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.  <o:p></o:p>
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. <o:p></o:p>
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. <o:p></o:p>
Tarjim
(an Arabic word meaning "translate) is at 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.<o:p></o:p>
 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.<o:p></o:p>
 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.<o:p></o:p>
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