Issue 100992

Summary:	translation
Product:	Native-Lang	Reporter:	ddbr <baldurlentod>
Component:	es	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	ACCEPTED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	680
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
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Description ddbr 2009-04-09 16:19:59 UTC

I don't know if this page is the right avenue for my query, but for the last 
three years I have been using the Systran Office 5.0 program for translation 
between English and Spanish in Microsoft word, using Systran's plug in for 
Word. Now that I have changed from MS Word to Open Office, I don't know if 
there is any way  to continue using Systran. If there is any possibilty of 
doing so, I would like to use it. Or, perhaps, there are alternatives that I 
might try? I should be grateful for any light that can be thrown on this.

Comment 1 richard.holt 2009-04-12 15:17:33 UTC

Thanks for your report; however, it is not really a bug but a compatibility
issue that depends on the Systrans company for resolution, since the number of
users involved is not significant. Systrans is a machine translation plugin for
Word. Perhaps they could be persuaded to release a proprietary version for OOo3? 

Info here on machine translation mentioning Systrans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_translation

Info listed here on open source projects, compatible with OOo,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_translation

However, there is considerable interest currently by many governments,
especially US & EU, in reliable machine translations which are receiving
funding. Results are improved over time as the program builds up a store of
translation pairs (words, phrases). 

This is not really an issue that OOo can resolve, but who knows? Maybe someone
is interested in building a plugin. There are some open source projects which
could use your knowledge and experience in bringing something about. 

I will leave this as started for now, but await other opinions before marking it
as an invalid issue which it is and isn't. I don't know to whom it could be
assigned to carry it along as a plugin subproject. 

Saludos, 
Richard.