From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T06:51:17+09:00
Subject: Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 15:21, Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> On 12/14/05, Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/14/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> > > cap wrote:
> > > > I use
> > > >
> > > > http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
> > > >
> > > > to guess what did they say
> > >
> > > Thanks.  I can use that, or Alta Vista's Babel.
> > >
> > > What I could use is a tool that takes the Japanese RDF feed, runs it
> > > though a translator, and emits a new feed, to which I can subscribe.
> > >
> > > Hmm ...
> >
> > I've got a framework running at "http://jacob.fugal.net/era/" (ERA =
> > English Ruby Annoucements). The only portion lacking is the
> > translation. I couldn't find a web service that does japanese to
> > english and I didn't want to do screenscraping. If you can point me at
> > an appropriate webservice or write your own bit of screen scraping
> > code, I'll plug it in and you've got your feed! :)
>
> Does this lame little snippet help? Heh.  Unfortunately, babelfish is
> limited to 150 words.

Babelfish will also let you plug in a site and just translate that.  So why 
not just plug in the site and then scrape the actual page with just 
translated text?