PanLex Translator

How to use

1. After installing this extension, please either reload your open tabs or restart Chrome.
2. Click the extension icon (next to Chrome address bar) to open "Extension Options".
3. Select the languages you want to translate "from" and "to". Choose "Auto Detect" for "Translate from" if you want the extension to automatically identify the source language.
4. If you could not find the language you prefer, click "more languages" on the "Extension Options" menu to open a table of all supported languages.
5. Search for your preferred language by typing the language name under "Language Name", and select it by click the radio button on its left (translate from) or right (translate to).
6. Select the word/phrase you want to translate on a webpage.
7. By default, this extension will show a popup window when you select or double-click a word/phrase. To change this behaviour, a trigger key can be set in the "Extension Options" menu. After setting the trigger key to "Alt/Option", the popup window will only be shown when you select/double click a word/phrase and press "Option" (Mac OSX) or "Alt" (Other systems) at the same time.

Introduction

This 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