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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5946 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 9 of 18 14 July 2010 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
Why? They're selling a very valuable time-saving service to professionals whose time is already very valuable. So they lose out on sales to amateurs -- so what? The volume of sales is irrelevant compared to revenues, and I'm sure they're getting their money's worth out of it. I can't afford Photoshop either, because it's aimed at pros. Thankfully the tools aimed at amateurs are powerful enough for my needs. In the end, everybody gets the tools they need, and the software authors get the recompense they have earned. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| taqseem Newbie Switzerland Joined 5629 days ago 34 posts - 47 votes Studies: English | Message 10 of 18 14 July 2010 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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now they have a special offer - a perpetual license for 1500 rubles (~$50) only with no restrictions on functionality (10 languages, 90 translation directions).
you can check it here (in russian) http://www.abbyy.ru/aligner/buy 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| andras_farkas Tetraglot Groupie Hungary Joined 4835 days ago 56 posts - 165 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Spanish, English, Italian | Message 11 of 18 27 June 2011 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
I know this is an old post, but I just bumped into it by accident. I'm the author of LF Aligner (the first tool on your list), so I thought I'd give you some info. LF Aligner uses Hunalign internally for autoalignment, adding a more convenient interface and a bunch of extra features including support for html, doc, docx, rtf, pdf and other input formats, and xls and tmx output (on top of txt of course). LF aligner can also do multilingual alignments, i.e. if you have a text in 5 languages, you can autoalign all 5 in one go and get a 5-column all-in-sync xls file. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Faraday Senior Member United States Joined 6053 days ago 129 posts - 256 votes Speaks: German* | Message 12 of 18 28 June 2011 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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andras_farkas, thanks for authoring what looks to be a very useful tool. However, I have not been able to get it to
work. Has anyone successfully run LF Aligner, especially on a mac? (though I have also tried to get it to work on a PC as well) I've gone through the readme several times, and still cannot get any of the input text on the output xls and txt files.They simply show up blank, other than the instructions on the output Excel/xls file. I am using docx files as input language files. I've installed both AbiWord, and fink/Antiword per the instructions, but still nothing. If anyone can shed any light on this, I'd be very grateful. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5255 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 13 of 18 28 June 2011 at 5:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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AFAIK, the tool works internally with UTF-8 files and creates a tab-delimited text file as the raw output. Any other format will most likely need to be converted and this additional step might cause problems.
Try saving your files as UTF-8 text files and then try again to align them. BTW, you get better alignment results if you use a text dictionary with entries delimited with an at sign (@). For example, an English/German alignment dictionary would have the following format: Haus @ house Maus @ mouse (The entries need to be in reverse order.) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Faraday Senior Member United States Joined 6053 days ago 129 posts - 256 votes Speaks: German* | Message 14 of 18 28 June 2011 at 5:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmm, I tried it with UTF-8 text files as you described, and am still getting blank files.
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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5255 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 15 of 18 28 June 2011 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You may want to PM Andras Farkas, because there might be a bug in the software.
If you know how to use command line tools, you could do the following: 1. Segment both source files using aligner/scripts/sentence_splitter/split-sentences.perl 2. Run aligner/scripts/hunalign/hunalign_mac using the two files that you created in step #1 as input parameters (The tool is just a sophisticated wrapper script.) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Faraday Senior Member United States Joined 6053 days ago 129 posts - 256 votes Speaks: German* | Message 16 of 18 28 June 2011 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for your help, Doitsujin. Unfortunately, I know very little about computers and command lines and such. I'll
keep trying. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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