US puts Iraqi documents on the Web ~ MSM acknowledges ...Goal is to speed up translation of files

Boston Globe ^ | March 18, 2006 | Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Too bad the RINO's won't allow the "white flag" ad to be run again on TV

Pass this "white flag" ad from Dec 2005 around on the internet, it's from gop.com

http://www.gop.com/Media/120905.wmv

At least gop.com has not been taken over by the RINO's!

[jveritas]

What is that?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Fort Leavenworth site:

Foreign Military Studies Office
Joint Reserve Intelligence Center

Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents

[buck61]

Is Mr. Shahada a Muslim or Christian? The reason I ask is where is the outrage from the American Muslim population for America.
I note that he says he loves America and, he and only he is willing to show it. I think he would not print a document on how to make a bomb or anthrax, there or others doing this same work.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

It is a program that assists translators in doing a translation.

I am a programmer, and wish to contribute to the effort. I am looking into optical character recognition for Arabic. I don't know yet if there is anything. I would like to feed the pdf's to some sort of OCR, providing people who do speak Arabic with a starting point.

There needs to be some sort of coordination like with open source projects. A Concurrent Version Server (CVS) with check in/check out might be handy.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

http://www.translation.net/sakhr_automatic_reader.html

Expensive, but take a look at this. Might be able to get them to donate some licenses in exchange for plugs when anything huge is found crediting them some.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Does BabelFish do Arabic?

[Ben Hecks]

Thanks for posting the link to the Hayes article. I have always suspected that the ransom money paid by Libya for the hostages held by Abu Sayyaf was a clever scheme to transfer money to the terrorists. We should also keep in mind that the Iraqi diplomat expelled by the Philippine government was directly involved in the incident that took the life of an American citizen.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box

this does Arabic to English

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

http://aramedia.com/transphereocr.htm

This one looks even more promising. Feed it the PDF image, it OCR's the Arabic, and then does a preliminary translation to English.

The translator then would merely have to proof read and fix mistakes.

[Just A Nobody]

This is starting to look like a tidal wave heading for the Main Stream Media....

What a glorious mental picture you have painted!
Thanks - made my day!

[Just A Nobody]

Thanks Sleuth! Missed the show do to back to back phone calls and the live thread from NC.

from Bin Ladin to Mullah Omar...talking about using the media to get their message out...

And it has worked beautifully!!! Beware the ENEMEDIA.

[jveritas]

Thanks. However some if not many of the documents are handwritten and it will make it very difficult for any software to make the translation. These types of documents can be only translated by people with very good knowledge of the Arabic language.

PS: The two documents that I have translated so far are handwritten.

[Chaguito]

In my opinion this is a great move by the administration. The internet is like the ultimate peer review. These may be the most accurate translations ever made.

[Thombo2]

Translations:Thanks for the help.I suspect those docs would have sat around collecting dust for a very long time.

[upcountry miss]

I seldom post here, preferring to lurk and get the news, but feel compelled to express my admiration for your patriotism.

[jveritas]

Thank you very much.

[sgtyork]

Thanks for your efforts!

[Left2Right]

Bingo!

[HAL9000]

Does BabelFish do Arabic?

Babelfish does not. However, it's based on Systran software, and apparently the systranbox mentioned above does do Arabic.

I haven't had much luck with these sites recently -

http://www.almisbar.com/salam_trans.html

http://translate.sakhr.com/sakhr/elogin_ET.asp

http://www.cimos.com/index.asp?src=try