Links for Translators and Translator trainees

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  Translation Portals

• Translatum (the Translation Vortal) – By far the richest Greek site dedicated to translation. Worth exploring the many threads to share and learn
• Translatio – A more recent addition, this Greek site covers different but equally interesting areas-the site also offers free space if you would like to upload your CV
• Language Automation – A non-Greek site with useful links
• ProZ – A meeting point for professional translators around the globe. It also advertises translation jobs for which you can put in bids and advertise an ‘ASK AN EXPERT’ section where you can ask colleagues to help you resolve a particularly sticky translation problem.
• Lexilogia – A great online translation community with lively discussions and sharing of ideas and help

Translation Discussion Groups and Forums

• metafrasis – (230 members)
• techtranslation – Technical Translators’ Forum (814 members)
• Translatum Forum 856 Members

• MAGENTA Very very good but needs to be double checked. Bilingual Greek-English, English-Greek.
• IATE the best I have seen so far – bidirectional all languages – part of the EU site; if you extend the search on any one item, you may also see it used in different contexts/fields
• Pro2 All Languages

• LEXICON Greek English dictionary  overrated – most of the time it does not yield any data

• Glossword – a bidirectional dictionary (not working) from a site which allows you to create your own glossary online

• Onelook Dictionariessimultaneous lookup in more than 20 dictionaries
• The Encarta Online Dictionary – English to English but very good for double-checking terms
• Newbury House
  (with photos)
• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition
• Cambridge online Dictionaries
• YourDictionary.com
• Dictionary.com (English, meta-search)
• FreeDict Dictionaries
• Synonym Dictionary of English
• http://www.libr.uoc.gr/accessible through the library of UOCrete
• On-line Dictionaries and Glossaries – Language Sort
• RefDesk.com Dictionaries & Language Resources
• Dictionary metasearch tool (English)
• New Words in English
• Xlation.com Dictionaries
• English-greek dictionary (Perseus Project, Tufts University)

English Thesauruses

• THESAURUS A link not just for looking up related words but for straightforward dictionary work, fun and games section, crossword puzzles and more
• Roget’s Thesaurusvia Project Gutenberg
• Your Thesaurus Net
• ARTFL Project- ROGET Form
• American Slanguages You’ve just arrived and you can’t understand the local slang. Don’t despair, go to slanguages and get help with the local dialect!
• Old English Pages An encyclopedic compendium of resources for the study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon England.
• Vocabulary University

Specialist Dictionaries

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
• Biotech’s Life Science Dictionary
• Computer Currents High-Tech Dictionary
• Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversion
• Λεξικό Ορολογίας Πληροφορικής (Greek-English) University of Athens searchable online dictionary of informatics
• High – Tech Dictionary
• FOLDOC Computing Dictionary
• Convert Auto convert just about anything, automatically
• Computer Science Glossary About.com’s Guide J.D. Baker provides an expert resource and definition, as well as an example sentence using each glossary term for contextual help understanding the specific term.
• Glossa : Technical Dictionary (Greek-English)
• InfoLex(Greek-English & English-Greek)– temporarily dow
• Terminological Information System (Multilingual) – good for a variety of fields; source EurodicautuBusiness, Computer and more Glossaries from Multilingual Solution
• Business & Finance Glossary A helpful glossary of English Terms explained in Greek. You can also look up the term in the Greek glossary pages (students working towards the Greek to English option)

LEGAL DICTIONARIES

• Legal Dictionary
• International Law Dictionary
• law.com Dictionary
• The Duhaim online legal dictionary
• Glossary of Social Science An alphabetical listing of terms in social science texts and articles
• Dictionary of the Social Sciences
• Official Dictionary of Olympic Sports (English to Greek)
• Official Dictionary of Olympic Sports ( Greek to English)
• Biographical Dictionary

MEDICAL DICTIONARIES

• Online Medical Dictionary
• Medicinet Medical Dictionary
• Medline Netdefinitions of popular medical terms
• Shareware Dictionary of 10.000 Medical Terms –
  if you ever need it, probably not on this course, you need to pay a fee.
• Dictionary of Medical Terminology
• Terminological Information System (Multilingual) – good for a variety of fields; source Eurodicautum
• Collection of various online medical dictionaries
• Dictionary of Medical Terms English to Greek and Greek to English
• Αντίστροφο Λεξικό
• Επίτομο λεξικό της μεσαιωνικής ελληνικής δημώδους γραμματείας – Κριαρά
• Λεξικό Ελληνικής Γλώσσας – Τριανταφυλλίδη
• Dictionary of Greek & Latin Roots
• English-Greek Word Search. Perseus Project
• Greek-English dictionary of current words and phrases
• Greek-English-Greek informatics terminology dictionary
• Greek-English: Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon of classical Greek (Perseus Project)
• Microsoft Glossaries in Greek
• The Online Plain Text English Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1.0
• WordWeb (16-bit) 1.53
• Wordnet English Dictionary and Thesaurus

Concordancing Tools

A concordancing programme will ‘call up’ the word from a corpus of collected texts and will show it on your screen along with its co-text

• GREEK CORPUS SEARCH – you may need to register via e-mail Ελληνικό concordancer, με κείμενα από την εφημερίδα “Μακεδονία”, μέρος του Κόμβος, που προσφέρει πολλά σε διδάσκοντες και διδασκόμενους της Ελληνικής γλώσσας. Greek online concordancer, with texts from the newspaper Makedonia, part of the rapidly developing KOMVOS site for teachers and learners of Greek.

• ILSP CORPUS SEARCH – a limited number of searches can be performed without a subscription(Εδώ θα βρείτε το σώμα κειμένων του Ινστιτούτου Επεξεργασίας Λόγου, το οποίο αποτελείται από 30 εκατομμ. λέξεις. Σαν επισκέπτης χρήστης έχετε πρόσβαση στο πρόγραμμα με τον περιορισμό ότι δίνει μέχρι 10 μόνο προτάσεις για κάθε λέξη. Μπορείτε να κατεβάσετε τα αποτελέσματα. Με συνδρομή έχετε πρόσβαση σε πλήρη αποτελέσματα. is the site of the 30-million word Institute of Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) corpus of Greek. The demo version gives up to 10 sentence citations for each search word, which can be downloaded; subscriber facilities. (In Greek only) 
• COLLINS COBUILD COLLOCATION AND CONCORDANCE SAMPLER (for English)
• ONLINE CONCORDANCER (English)
• COLLOCATION FINDER (English)

ACRONYMS

• Acronym Finder
• Acronym Search

Glossaries

• Glossary of Business Terms English terms with Greek translations and definitions of the terms – from a company website
• Terminology Collection of online dictionariescan lead you to some interesting other glossary pages

To be continued….

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