Which web application on Yahoo! that translates text between different languages is named after a fictional animal used for a similar purpose in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
"Douglas Adams's book and radio series ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" that could instantly translate languages. In turn, the name of the fictional creature refers to the biblical account of the confusion of languages that arose in the city of Babel. On December 9, 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and SYSTRAN S.A. launched AltaVista Translation Service at babelfish.altavista.com, which was developed by a team of researchers at DEC. In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc. In July 2003, Overture, in turn, was taken over by Yahoo!. The web address for Babel Fish remained at babelfish.altavista.com until"
"May 9, 2008, when the address changed to babelfish.yahoo.com. As of May 30, 2012, the Web address changed yet again, this time redirecting babelfish.yahoo.com to www.microsofttranslator.com when Microsoft's Bing Translator replaced Yahoo Babel Fish. Yahoo! Babel Fish should not be confused with The Babel Fish Corporation founded by Oscar Jofre, which was operated at the URL www.babelfish.com (created in 1995). As of June 2013, babelfish.yahoo.com no longer redirected to the Microsoft Bing Translator. Instead, it refers directly back to the main Yahoo.com page. Babel Fish (website) Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web-based multilingual translation application. In May 2012 it"
"Some species, such as the Kalish, cannot use translator microbes because their body rejects them, so they must learn a new language through their own efforts. In the universe of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", universal translation is made possible by a small fish called a ""babel fish"". The fish is inserted into the auditory canal where it feeds off the mental frequencies of those speaking to its host. In turn it excretes a translation into the brain of its host. The book remarks that, by allowing everyone to understand each other, the babel fish has caused more wars"
"website and has expanded to other languages. The following languages are supported in Naver Papago. Naver Papago Naver Papago (Hangul: 네이버 파파고), shortened to Papago and stylized as papago, is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Naver Corporation. Unlike other translators, Papago uses a neural machine to learn from its mistakes and learn what type of translations the user requires. The word ""Papago"" comes from the Esperanto word for ""parrot"", Esperanto being a constructed language. Papago exited its trial phase and officially launched on July 19, 2017 with translation options for Korean, Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, and French."
"Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoos are legendary beings in the 1726 satirical novel ""Gulliver's Travels"" written by Jonathan Swift. Their behavior and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. The word ""yahoo"" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of ""Gulliver's Travels"" and has since entered the English language more broadly. Its most famous use is as the name of a pioneering search engine, Yahoo!. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, ""a brute in human form,"" resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel"
"Sleipnir (web browser) Sleipnir is a tabbed web browser developed by Fenrir Inc. The browser's main features are customization and tab functions. It supports HTML5 and different layout engines. The names Sleipnir and Fenrir are both animals from Norse mythology. Sleipnir was originally created in Japanese and then released with English and Chinese translations. Further translations are performed by volunteer translators. It is available for iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, and Windows Phone. Sleipnir was originally developed by Yasuyuki Kashiwagi. In November 2004, the computer containing Sleipnir's source code was stolen. In 2005, Kashiwagi established Fenrir & Co. to start"
"the third spot as the best browser for Android, outrun by Dolphin and Maxthon. Sleipnir (web browser) Sleipnir is a tabbed web browser developed by Fenrir Inc. The browser's main features are customization and tab functions. It supports HTML5 and different layout engines. The names Sleipnir and Fenrir are both animals from Norse mythology. Sleipnir was originally created in Japanese and then released with English and Chinese translations. Further translations are performed by volunteer translators. It is available for iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, and Windows Phone. Sleipnir was originally developed by Yasuyuki Kashiwagi. In November 2004, the computer containing"
"Babel fish from Douglas Adams's ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", a symbiotic fish that serves as a universal translator. Babbel is also a homophone of the English verb ""babble."" Babbel's content marketing arm publishes a digital magazine with written and video content in seven different languages. The topics range from behind-the-scenes looks at how Babbel lessons are created to profiles of Babbel customers and language learning tips from the company's didactics team. In November 2016, Babbel launched a television ad campaign in the UK and Europe. Two television spots were created by the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy. Sophie Bodoh, Creative Director"
"additional text-to-speech engines available for download also through Lingoes' website. Lingoes also offers a whole-text translation ability using online translation service providers like Google Translate, Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation, SYSTRAN, Cross Language, Click2Translate and others. Lingoes also offers various ways to translate a text, for examples, via a mouse-over, or by bouble clicking the selected text, options not available with Babylon pro. Lingoes Lingoes is a single-click multi-lingual translation software program released as a freeware translation utility. Lingoes is often compared to Babylon dictionary due to similarities in the GUI, same functionalities and most importantly being free of charge. Lingoes"
"SYSTRAN SYSTRAN, founded by Dr. Peter Toma in 1968, is one of the oldest machine translation companies. SYSTRAN has done extensive work for the United States Department of Defense and the European Commission. SYSTRAN provides the technology for Yahoo! Babel Fish among others. It was used by Google's language tools until 2007. SYSTRAN is used by the Dashboard Translation widget in OS X. Commercial versions of SYSTRAN can run on Microsoft Windows (including Windows Mobile), Linux, and Solaris. Historically, SYSTRAN systems used Rule-based machine translation (RbMT) technology. With the release of SYSTRAN Server 7 in 2010, SYSTRAN implemented a hybrid"
"Naver Papago Naver Papago (Hangul: 네이버 파파고), shortened to Papago and stylized as papago, is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Naver Corporation. Unlike other translators, Papago uses a neural machine to learn from its mistakes and learn what type of translations the user requires. The word ""Papago"" comes from the Esperanto word for ""parrot"", Esperanto being a constructed language. Papago exited its trial phase and officially launched on July 19, 2017 with translation options for Korean, Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, and French. It was only available as a smartphone app but it has since launched its own"
"Lingoes Lingoes is a single-click multi-lingual translation software program released as a freeware translation utility. Lingoes is often compared to Babylon dictionary due to similarities in the GUI, same functionalities and most importantly being free of charge. Lingoes could be installed in Windows 32/64 or used as portable application. Lingoes has the ability to add new dictionaries and encyclopedias to widen its usability. Online encyclopedias like ""Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,"" and ""Baidu Baike"" as well as leading dictionaries like ""Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English"", ""Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary"", ""WordNet"", ""MacMillan English Dictionary"",""Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary"" and many other cross-English"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a fictional electronic guide book in the multimedia scifi/comedy series of the same name by Douglas Adams. The Guide serves as ""the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom"" for many members of the series' galaxy-spanning civilization. Entries from the guidebook are used as comic narration to bridge events and provide background information in every version of the story. The guide is published by ""Megadodo Publications"", a publishing company on Ursa Minor Beta. In the original radio scripts, the Guide's voice was called the ""Narrator"" and"
"Yahoo! Query Language Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) is an SQL-like query language created by Yahoo! as part of their Developer Network. YQL is designed to retrieve and manipulate data from APIs through a single Web interface, thus allowing mashups that enable developers to create their own applications. Initially launched in October 2008 with access to Yahoo APIs, February 2009 saw the addition of open data tables from third parties such as Google Reader, the ""Guardian"", and ""The New York Times"". Some of these APIs still require an API key to access them. On April 29 of 2009, Yahoo introduced the"
"2009 with 8.6 million euros. The following is a list of the source and target languages with which SYSTRAN works. Many of the pairs are to or from English or French. SYSTRAN SYSTRAN, founded by Dr. Peter Toma in 1968, is one of the oldest machine translation companies. SYSTRAN has done extensive work for the United States Department of Defense and the European Commission. SYSTRAN provides the technology for Yahoo! Babel Fish among others. It was used by Google's language tools until 2007. SYSTRAN is used by the Dashboard Translation widget in OS X. Commercial versions of SYSTRAN can run"
"H2g2 The h2g2 website is a British-based collaborative online encyclopedia project. It describes itself as ""an unconventional guide to life, the universe, and everything"", in the spirit of the fictional publication ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" from the science fiction comedy series of the same name by Douglas Adams. It was founded by Adams in 1999 and was run by the BBC between 2001 and 2011. The intent is to create an Earth-focused guide that allows members to share information about their geographic area and the local sites, activities and businesses, to help people decide where they want to"
"paid), designed primarily for the localization of sites of Internet shops and travel companies. Yandex.Translate Yandex.Translate (previously Yandex.Translation) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of text or web pages into another language. The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation, developed by Yandex. The system constructs the dictionary of correspondences based on the analysis of millions of translated texts. In order to translate the text, the computer first compares it to a database of words. The computer then compares the text to the base language models, trying to determine the meaning of an expression in"
"Yandex.Translate Yandex.Translate (previously Yandex.Translation) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of text or web pages into another language. The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation, developed by Yandex. The system constructs the dictionary of correspondences based on the analysis of millions of translated texts. In order to translate the text, the computer first compares it to a database of words. The computer then compares the text to the base language models, trying to determine the meaning of an expression in the context of the text. The translation function obtained in the search results pages"
"to readers of the translated text. For example, in the Belgian comic book ""The Adventures of Tintin"", Tintin's trusty canine sidekick ""Milou"" is translated as ""Snowy"" in English, ""Bobbie"" in Dutch, ""Kuttus"" in Bengali, and ""Struppi"" in German; likewise the detectives ""Dupont"" and ""Dupond"" become ""Thomson"" and ""Thompson"" in English, ""Jansen"" and ""Janssen"" in Dutch, ""Jonson"" and ""Ronson"" in Bengali, ""Schultze"" and ""Schulze"" in German, ""Hernández"" and ""Fernández"" in Spanish, and (""Dùběn"" and ""Dùpéng"") in Chinese, ""Dyupon"" and ""Dyuponn"" in Russian and ""Skafti"" and ""Skapti"" in Icelandic. Adaptation is often used when translating poetry, works of theatre, and advertising. Borrowing"
"committing the ""Son of Sam"" murders in 1976. Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoos are legendary beings in the 1726 satirical novel ""Gulliver's Travels"" written by Jonathan Swift. Their behavior and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. The word ""yahoo"" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of ""Gulliver's Travels"" and has since entered the English language more broadly. Its most famous use is as the name of a pioneering search engine, Yahoo!. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, ""a brute in human form,"" resembling human beings far"
"Tatoeba Tatoeba.org is a free collaborative online database of example sentences geared towards foreign language learners. Its name comes from the Japanese term ""tatoeba"" (例えば ""tatoeba""), meaning ""for example"". Unlike other online dictionaries, which focus on words, Tatoeba focuses on translation of complete sentences. In addition, the structure of the database and interface emphasize one-to-many relationships. Not only can a sentence have multiple translations within a single language, but its translations into all languages are readily visible, as are indirect translations that involve a chain of stepwise links from one language to another. The aim of the Tatoeba Project is"
"Microsoft Translator Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft. Microsoft Translator is integrated across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products; including Bing, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Lync, Yammer, Skype Translator, Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Translator apps for Windows, Windows Phone, iPhone and Apple Watch, and Android phone and Android Wear. Microsoft Translator also offers text and speech translation through cloud services for businesses. Service for text translation via the Translator Text API ranges from a free tier supporting two million characters per month to paid tiers supporting billions of characters per"
"user selects ""Translate this page"" in Bing search results, the Bilingual Viewer is shown, which allows users to browse the original web page text and translation in parallel, supported by synchronized highlights, scrolling, and navigation. Four Bilingual Viewer layouts are available: side by side, top and bottom, original with hover translation and translation with hover original. Bing is available in many languages and has been localized for many countries. Even if the language of the search and of the results are the same, Bing delivers substantially different results for different parts of the world. In addition to its tool for"
"and Scott Haeger. Orca (assistive technology) Orca is a free and open-source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and GTK+, Qt and Java Swing/SWT applications). The name Orca, which is another term for a killer whale, is a nod to the long-standing tradition of naming screen readers after aquatic creatures, including the Assistive Technology product on Windows called JAWS (which stands for Job"
"Google Translate Google Translate is a free multilingual machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text. It offers a website interface, mobile apps for Android and iOS, and an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. Google Translate supports over 100 languages at various levels and , serves over 500 million people daily. Launched in April 2006 as a statistical machine translation service, it used United Nations and European Parliament transcripts to gather linguistic data. Rather than translating languages directly, it first translates text to English and then to the target language. During a translation, it"
"a human-like alien writer for the eccentric, electronic travel guide ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", by hitchhiking onto a passing Vogon spacecraft. Following his rescue, Dent explores the galaxy with Prefect and encounters Trillian, another human who had been taken from Earth prior to its destruction by the President of the Galaxy, the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, and the depressed Marvin, the Paranoid Android. Certain narrative details were changed between the various adaptations. The various versions follow the same basic plot but they are in many places mutually contradictory, as Adams rewrote the story substantially for each new adaptation. Throughout"
"spoken aloud in the target language. The app also includes an add name function, a background dictionary, and other features. On iOS, it is compatible with VoiceOver for vision impaired users. Jibbigo was featured on an episode of ""Popular Science - Future Of"" by the Science Channel in early 2010 and the PBS Nova episode ""The Smartest Machine on Earth"" in 2011. In August 2013, it was announced that Facebook was acquiring the company. Jibbigo Jibbigo is a mobile offline language translation application that was developed by Mobile Technologies, LLC and Dr. Alex Waibel, a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Jibbigo"
"and through a series of experiments, researchers hoped that Lana would learn to interpret what each key would correlate to and learn to meaningfully communicate her requests. Yerkish Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. It employs a keyboard whose keys contain ""lexigrams"", symbols corresponding to objects or ideas. A lexigram represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object to which it refers. Lexigrams were notably used by the Georgia State University Language Research Center to communicate with bonobos and chimpanzees. Researchers and primates were able to communicate using lexigram boards made in"
"example, an octopus statue pun from ""Mother 2"" was converted to a pencil statue in the ""EarthBound"" English localization and was changed accordingly in the ""Mother 3"" localization. The team also built custom software to aid in the translation, such as a cross-assembler and tools for handling the script and patching. Members of the hacking team included Tomato, Jeffman, byuu, and sblur, among others. About 1,000 pages of text were translated. They estimated the theoretical freelance cost of the translation at $30,000. Young described Tomato as a perfectionist, and said that he kept the translation team small so as not"
"facing translation portal provided by Microsoft to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages. All translation pairs are powered by the Microsoft Translator, a statistical machine translation platform and web service, developed by Microsoft Research, as its backend translation software. Two transliteration pairs (between Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional)) are provided by Microsoft's Windows International team. As of 2019, Bing Translator offers translations in 60 different language systems. Bing Translator can translate phrases entered by the user or acquire a link to a web page and translate its entirely. When translating an entire web page, or when the"
"and Chinese (Traditional)) are provided by Microsoft's Windows International team. As of 2019, Bing Translator offers translations in different language systems. Bing Translator can translate phrases entered by the user or acquire a link to a web page and translate its entirely. When translating an entire web page, or when the user selects ""Translate this page"" in Bing search results, the Bilingual Viewer is shown, which allows users to browse the original web page text and translation in parallel, supported by synchronized highlights, scrolling, and navigation. Four Bilingual Viewer layouts are available: Bing Translator integrates with several other Microsoft products."
"the grammar will be incorrect. Internettolken Internettolken (or ""InternetPreter""), is a web-based machine translating tool. As the first Swedish online translating service, it was started in 2002 and included the English and Swedish languages. Today there are 14 languages with more than 120 possible combinations. The service is free up to 150 words per day, and as a 2,000-word free testing account. It is available both on its website, and as a gadget on iGoogle. The interface is either English or Swedish. Being a dictionary-based tool, with its own translation software, it can sometimes offer a more accurate translation than"
"in speech-to-text recognition. With adaptive hierarchical language models, Vlingo improves its speech-to-text recognition as it learns a user’s speech and search habits. It was the first technology of its kind to use adaptive hierarchical language models to learn from the corrections a user would make. Vlingo servers analyze speech queries and send any recommendations or possible corrections back to the user. This technology allows users to text, search, and navigate smartphones without typing. Vlingo had its own application with over 5 million users in addition to partnerships with a number of companies, including Yahoo, Samsung, RIM, and Nokia. Vlingo ships"