Whois & Analysis for babylon-software.com

Babylon is a computer dictionary and translation program, developed by Babylon Software Ltd., an Israeli public company based in Or Yehuda.

The company was established in 1997 by the Israeli entrepreneur Amnon Ovadia.

Its IPO took place ten years later.

It is considered a part of Israel's Download Valley, a cluster of software companies monetizing "free" software downloads through adware.

Babylon includes in-house proprietary dictionaries, as well as community-created dictionaries and glossaries.

It is a tool used for translation and conversion of currencies, measurements and time, and for obtaining other contextual information.

The program also uses a text-to-speech agent, so users hear the proper pronunciation of words and text.

Babylon has developed 36 English-based proprietary dictionaries in 21 languages.

In 2008–2009, Babylon reported earnings of 50 million NIS through its collaboration with Google.

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, translation, etc.

or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, sometimes known as a lexicon.

It is a lexicographical product which shows inter-relationships among the data.

Wikipedia (or) is a free online encyclopedia that aims to allow anyone to edit articles.

Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet and is ranked among the ten most popular websites.

Wikipedia is owned by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation.

Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a system.

The scientific study of language is called linguistics.

Questions concerning the philosophy of language, such as whether words can represent experience, have been debated since Gorgias and Plato in Ancient Greece.

Thinkers such as Rousseau have argued that language originated from emotions while others like Kant have held that it originated from rational and logical thought.

20th-century philosophers such as Wittgenstein argued that philosophy is really the study of language.

Major figures in linguistics include Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky.

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

While interpreting—the facilitating of oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages—antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature.

There exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (ca.

2000 BCE) into Southwest Asian languages of the second millennium BCE.