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>From: [log in to unmask] (Kathleen March)
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 06:23:04 -0700
>Subject: Re: #6388Translation software
>References: <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: University of Maine

[log in to unmask],InetGW2 writes:
>Our local high school has asked if we know of any software that can
>translate documents from English to Spanish.  The school is now
>mandated to
>provide many of its documents for parents (handbooks, newsletters, etc)
>in
>Spanish as well as in English.  He is hoping for an easy, inexpensive
>way to
>follow this directive.

There is absolutely no reliable software for this and the results you
get are embarrassing as well as often incomprehensible.  You need real
people.
Kathleen March

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Kathleen March
Professor of Spanish; Director, Critical Languages Program
Dept. Modern Languages & Classics, University of Maine, Orono ME 04469
tel.: 207-581-2088; fax: 207-581-1832