Finding a Translation Service

… just got the following mail from an enthusiastic seekda user:

I am a researcher and a developer involved in a couple of EU projects. In one of the projects, specifically SWING (Semantic Web Services Interoperability for Geospatial Decision Making, FP6 STREP, http://www.swing-project.org), I needed to translate several words (ontology concept names, to be more specific) from English to some other language (e.g. French). Automatically, of course. First I tought it will take me at least a weak to get some machine translation lib figured out but it actually took me only two minutes with seekda I simply typed in the query “translation” and selected one of the listed Web services. I created the stub for C# and wrote these few lines of code:

public static void Main()  {
   TranslationMode transl_mode_obj = new TranslationMode();
   transl_mode_obj.ObjectID = "en_de";
   TranslationService transl_srv = new TranslationService();
   Console.WriteLine(transl_srv.Translate(transl_mode_obj,  "Seekda is extremely useful!"));
}

When I ran it, I got the following output:

Seekda ist extrem nützlich!

…and it’s true too

Thanks for providing this service, best regards,
mIHA
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia