README.txt

Introduction
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This Google Chrome Browser extension demonstrates the inter/intra-lingual 
translation functionalities of PanLex (http://panlex.org/), a project of The 
Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/). The PanLex open-source database 
aims to document all known lexical translations and thereby to help users 
express any lexical concept in any language.  PanLex editors are consulting 
thousands of dictionaries and other knowledge sources to build the database, 
which already documents a billion lexical translations, from which billions 
more can be derived. This extension is built upon this database, by using its 
public API (http://api.panlex.org).

Features
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- When installed in Google Chrome, provide translations between 9231 
  languages, by selecting words/phrases on webpages.
- More detailed information about the supported languages, the knowledge 
  sources consulted, and the available data can be found at 
  http://panlex.org/try.
- Provide the option to automatically identify the source language of the 
  selected content. This automatic language identification supports 97 
  languages as described at https://github.com/saffsd/langid.py
- To install this extension, please visit 
  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions.

Acknowledgement
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The development of this extension has been supported by many people, who made 
the release of this extension possible. Particular mention goes to people who 
have given me indispensable help and stimulation: Jonathan Pool 
<pool@panlex.org>, David Kamholz <kamholz@panlex.org>, Marco Lui 
<saffsd@gmail.com>, and Timothy Baldwin <tb@ldwin.net>.

This extension also extensively uses source code from the open source 
community, and borrows ideas from other similar applications:
- Thanks to Marco Lui <saffsd@gmail.com> who provided the Javascript version 
  (https://github.com/saffsd/langid.js) of his language identification tool 
  `langid.py` (https://github.com/saffsd/langid.py).
- This extension is heavily inspired by a similar translation extension from
  Google, namely Google Dictionary (http://goo.gl/bqrQ14), which mainly focuses 
  on 13 languages.
- This extension also makes use of jQuery (http://jquery.com/) and tablesorter 
  (https://github.com/christianbach/tablesorter).
- This extension also uses English lemmatization exception dictionaries from 
  WordNet (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/)