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1) Subject: Online Arabic to English Translation from Sakhr

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Date:  12 Oct 2001
From: Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Online Arabic to English Translation from Sakhr

Press Release_________________________________________________________

Digitek International,
Inc.                                                                          Falls
Church VA 22043

Online Arabic-to-English Translation from Sakhr

Online Version Gives the Gist of Al-Jazeera and Other Arabic Sites

Washington, October 11, 2001- Get the gist of Arabic news and
websites, such as Al-Jazeera TV's website at
<http://www.aljazeera.net/>www.aljazeera.net, in English. Digitek
International is pleased to announce that Sakhr Software has put the
latest beta version of its Arabic-to-English translation software
online at
<http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1>http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1.

Like beta versions of all machine translation tools, the output is
not perfect but it certainly does give a good sense of the Arabic
article it translates. Try it on leading news sites such as
<http://www.al-hayat.com/>www.al-hayat.com,
<http://www.alahram.org.eg/>www.alahram.org.eg,
<http://www.moheet.com/>www.moheet.com, or
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic>www.bbc.co.uk/arabic and read what the
Arab press is saying in Lebanon, Egypt, and elsewhere.

The Tarjim website is a free service to the world community. It
translates webpages as well as copied or typed in text. Once you use
Tarjim to translate one page on a website such as Al-Jazeera, a click
on any link on that page will take you to another automatically
translated webpage. Tarjim also enables you to use Arabic search
engines such as Dalil to search for a story and get the results in
English.

For a taste of what Sakhr's Arabic to English translator will soon
become try the English to Arabic direction on Tarjim. Sakhr's English
to Arabic translator was its first machine translation product and
yields much higher quality results. The free online English to Arabic
translator allows you to choose specific topic areas to sharpen the
accuracy of the translation.

Sakhr Software's translation development team updates the Tarjim
Arabic to English translator daily with improvements. While most
software development houses would hesitate to give public access to
an unfinished product, Sakhr realizes that many people are more
interested in knowing what the Arab press and websites are saying
than in having a perfectly constructed translation. For the curious,
the translation site provides an opportunity to track daily the
improved accuracy and speed of a work in progress.

Sakhr is the world's leading developer and publisher of Arabic and
bilingual speech, translation, and document handling software. It's
product line includes a wide range of customized solutions as well as
retail products for language learning, language resources, children's
entertainment, and family software. Digitek International represents
Sakhr Software in North America.

For more information, contact:

Mark Meinke, Digitek International, (703) 8830134

or email: info at sakhrus.com


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