خدمات الترجمة الآلية المجانية الداعمة للغة العربية على شبكة الويب : دراسة وصفية تحليلية

Abstract EN

The study sheds light on the free on-line translation services that supports Arabic language on the Web.

This is done through the analysis and description of all its related aspects such as: organizations and companies responsible of providing the services, the number of languages supported by the services, the registration requirements, the nature of the materials that are translated, their ingredients and elements, the potential advantages offered to the beneficiaries when they activate a different translation processes, the options it provides to its users in relation to the texts resulting from the translation process, the limitations and restrictions on the number of translated words using the services.

The study used the field survey methodology to achieve its goals and depended on checklist and observation as its study tools.

The study was carried out over a study sample that consisted of eighteen free on¬line translation services, only one of them was Arabic.

The study comes up with a set of important conclusions.

One of its important results is that the free on-line translation services have their superior advantages over other services provided on the Web.

This superior advantages comes from their wide useful features and options such as: providing translation of different types of materials such as: text translation, Webpages and Websites translation, files and documents translation, chats translation, E-mail messages translation; providing sounds and pronunciation of unknown words ; providing audit spelling and grammar errors contained in the texts; providing virtual keyboards; possibility of sending the resulting translation results via E-mail and making comparison among translation services and other translation services available on Web.