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International Refugee Law: Sources To Support Safe Harbor Participants & Other Interns: Translators

Machine Translators & Links to Online Dictionaries

Each website below includes a pull-down menu of languages covered by the translation tool.  Machine translators are not yet equivalent to human translators.     

Google Translate

Bing Translator (upgraded version of Yahoo! Babel Fish)

In Comparative Evaluation of Online Machine Translation Systems with Legal Texts, 100 L. Libr. J. 299, 316 (2008), Chunyu Kit and Tak Ming Wong stated that a particular strength of Babel Fish was translating from Greek or Russian to English.

PROMPT

In 2008, Chunyu Kit and Tak Ming Wong noted that PROMPT (a predecessor to Online-Translator) was slightly better at translating from Portuguese to English.

Omniglot links to online dictionaries

Translators, Interpreters & Linguists

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition: Less Commonly Taught Languages

Through this website, one might be able to identify faculty who could be, or who could recommend, translators and interpreters.

The National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators

New York Circle of Translators

Transcription and Translation Services (provided by the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment)

See also:

Ethnologue: Languages of the World

International Refugee Rights Initiative: Country of Origin Information Experts (listed by country)