Re: Seeking help with a Perl module for translating languages

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:26:31 -0400 (EDT)

I'm definately interested -- thanks, Jim.

Jamal
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Jim Dunleavy
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:42:45 +0100
> From: Jim Dunleavy <jim.dunleavy@xxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Seeking help with a Perl module for translating languages
>
> Hi Jamal,
>
> I wrote a Python script that can query Yahoo Babelfish or Google Translate.
> I can post it if you are interested.
>
> --Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Seeking help with a Perl module for translating languages
>
>
> > Thanks for the info.  I'm looking for a programmatic way of doing a
> > translation, that is, a way that a program I write can control the UI
> > rather than depending on the UI of a web page or other desktop program.
> > Do you know of something that meets this criteria?
> >
> > Jamal
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008,
> > Demetry Yousifidou wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:31:26 +0200
> > > From: Demetry Yousifidou <demetry.yousifidou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: Seeking help with a Perl module for translating languages
> > >
> > > Hi Jamal, try the translator from Google.com -> Language Tools or the
> > > web and the program from www.QuickDic.org.
> > > HTH.
> > >
> > > Demetry
> > >
> > > On 10/14/2008 11:23 PM, Jamal Mazrui  wrote:
> > > > With Perl 5.8, I am trying to use the module WWW::Search::Translator,
> > > > which programmatically translates text between different natural
> languages
> > > > using babel.altavista.com.
> > > >
> > > > When I run the sample code in the documentation, I get an error about
> a
> > > > missing param function.  After web searches, I found that the CGI
> module
> > > > includes a function by that name, but using that module as well
> produced
> > > > another error message instead.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone help?  Below is the error message, followed by the code.
> > > >
> > > > Jamal
> > > >
> > > > Undefined subroutine &main::param called at TranLang.pl line 2.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   use WWW::Search;
> > > >   %opts = (
> > > >   lp => param(en_de),
> > > >   );
> > > >    $query = "a whole bunch of english text to be translated to
> german";
> > > >    my $search = new WWW::Search('Translator');
> > > >    $search->native_query(WWW::Search::escape_query($query),\%opts);
> > > >   while (my $result = $search->next_result())
> > > >     {
> > > >     $p = $result->raw;
> > > >     print "$p";
> > > >     }
> > > >
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