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Are there any open/free downloadable translation databases, besides wiktionary?

(any language welcome)

tshepang
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Stefan Steiger
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    I'm statistically cross-referencing wikipedia articles with the same title in different languages to make associations between words in one language and their counterpart in another. It works quite well, but my validated base-vocabulary is too tiny. – Stefan Steiger Jul 24 '10 at 14:30
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    @Quandary so did u find out the downloadable database? if so, can u share it here? – lakshmen Nov 25 '14 at 18:04
  • @lakesh: No. The best thing I could find was this http://www.ttmem.com/terminology/download-translation-memory/ and this http://wiki.proz.com/wiki/index.php/Publicly_accessible_translation_memories_(TMs) ; But they're both bad. – Stefan Steiger Dec 17 '15 at 15:31

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You could try contacting IATE. It's the European Union's database and it might be readily available. It being the EU you might have to wade through a couple of Red Seas of tape though :)

Another good source could be Glosbe, who are trying to build a large dict based on translation memories. According to their about section they allow downloads of the translation memories as well, so try contacting them.

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You can download in OmegaWiki. See: http://www.omegawiki.org/

The aim of our project is to create a dictionary of all words of all languages, including lexical, terminological and ontological information. Our data is available in a relational database, as a result it is possible to use the data for many purposes.

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Here's one simple approach for quickly getting the translations you're looking for:

  1. Get all the words & phrases you want into a text file, where each "translation target" is on a its own line

  2. Use https://translate.google.com to simultaneously translate entire block for each language with 1 click

  3. Copy/Paste results into spreadsheet, where each column can be for a different language translation

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    Interesting idea. Would this be legal? It's basically copying their database, and I'm not sure what it's licensed under but I assume it's not very free... – Cosine Feb 10 '17 at 03:31
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Have you tried Babel Eclipse it has a very interesting translation pack, if you need to translate you can also use Google Translation FAmily

Wondering what "have a nice day" looks like written in Hindi? You can use Google Transliterate to transform a given written language into dozens of other scripts.

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    I'm looking for a downloadable database. I already know Google translate, and I really need a database, not a web-service. I'm doing larger scale computations. A web-service totally kills performance. Plus I am looking for a dictionary, not a complete translation program. – Stefan Steiger Feb 23 '11 at 20:46
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Check out https://tatoeba.org/

It's a collaborative multi-lingual sentence translation database.

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