Neil Coffey - French to English translator. Translation services in Computers (general) - dictionary,computing,IT,Java,HTML,JavaScript,programming,CV,education,research,linguistics,corpus linguistics

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Neil Coffey
IT and linguistics specialist

United Kingdom / Native in: English

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Translation, Website localization, Software localization, Transcription

Specializes in:
Computers (general)	Music
Mathematics & Statistics	Linguistics
IT (Information Technology)	Internet, e-Commerce
Computers: Systems, Networks	Computers: Software
Computers: Hardware	Slang

Questions answered: 30, Questions asked: 0 Easy / 17 PRO, PRO-level points: 34

Years of translation experience: 10. Registered at ProZ.com: Jul 2000.

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Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint

http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/

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About me

Programmer and language specialist, working mainly in the fields of IT/computing, business and education. I have a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University (UK), an MPhil in Linguistics from Cambridge University (UK) and am a Sun-Certified Java Programmer.

As well as working on French/English translation (and in fact translations in other language pairs), I deveop and manage several web sites for students, educators and language professionals working in French and Spanish. These sites include:

an on-line French dictionary and Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary
various Spanish phrases and French phrases, plus on-line language games to help learners re-inforce their vocabulary learning
a translation example search engine, which lets you search translation corpora (currently sections of the Europarl corpus) for example translations of a particular word;
vocabulary podcast creation software, currently available for learners of Spanish
a French verb conjugator that you can embed in your home page or other web page
an on-line flash card generation tool, that you can use to create your own Spanish and French flash cards to print off
other language information, such as a section on Spanish pronunciation and Spanish grammar
an accents tool that you can use to add accents to text when this would not otherwise be easy

On a separate page, I also maintain a Spanish-English computing glossary. Suggestions for new material for the sites is always welcome, with new features announced in the Español-Inglés development blog;

an automatic French/English translation tool, which provides a 'commented translation' building on the Google Translate engine;

making the dictionary more "clicky" (providing more directed contextual help to on-line dictionary users.

Some of the computational techniques that I use are also described in various Java tutorials that I have written, which deal with various tricky programming topics, some related to the fields of text processing and computational linguistics, such as:

a guide to hash functions, a key technique in certain areas of text and data processing
text compression in Java, tailoring the existing compression library to better deal with text
the Java regular expression library, with the example of text mining and HTML scraping using regular expressions
Java Certification (SCJP) tips

Keywords: dictionary, computing, IT, Java, HTML, JavaScript, programming, CV, education, research, linguistics, corpus linguistics

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