New from Babylon; English-Czech and English-Polish Dictionaries in a single click

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Apr 19, 2012, 02:55 ET

NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Babylon.com, the world's leading provider of language solutions, such as the most popular dictionary and translation software announced today the release of new English-Czech and English-Polish proprietary dictionaries.

Millions of Babylon users around the globe will now be able to click on any term from any desktop application and receive immediate results to Czech and Polish in a small pop-up window on their screen.

Babylon English-Czech and English Polish Dictionaries contain words, phrases, abbreviations, acronyms, and interjections. They include terms from a vast variety of subjects, such as Medicine, Electronics, Zoology, Business, Computers, etc., and feature both the American and British forms of spelling.

"The need for English-Czech and English-Polish dictionaries has increased significantly over the past few years along with the growth of internet penetration in the Czech Republic and Poland." Dalia Preisler, Content and Linguistics Director.

"English-Czech and English-Polish dictionaries, just like all Babylon's proprietary dictionaries, are enabled with a morphological engine which facilitates recognition of all inflected forms of single words and phrases, provides all forms of terms that include prefixes and extensions and supplies a solution for all formats of writing", continues Mrs. Preisler. "These dictionaries come in addition to the Czech and Polish Wikipedia we launched a few years ago, enabling one click access to encyclopedic terms in Czech and Polish".

"We are now in the process of compiling the reverse Czech-English and Polish-English dictionaries in order to provide our users bidirectional comprehensive dictionaries, which will contain more than 110,000 words and translations."

Babylon also announces that it has added Wikipedia in Hindi language; thus now provides results and access to Wikipedia, the biggest multilingual free encyclopedia on the Internet, in 27 languages.

About Babylon.com

Babylon.com is a publicly traded company founded in 1997. The Company is a leading provider of language solutions such as online dictionary and translation software, translation services, language learning solutions, English writing enhancement and more. The Babylon.com user base exceeds 130 million desktop installations in more than 231 markets, supporting 75 languages.

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