Babelfish Translation from NLTK - Deutschina's Tech Diary

As mentioned in the past, Babelfish Translatoin service seems no longer available.

>>> from nltk.misc import babelfish
>>> babelfish.translate('cookbook', 'english', 'spanish')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "&lt;stdin>", line 1, in &lt;module>
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nltk\misc\babelfish.py", line 100, in tran
slate
    raise BabelizerIOError("Couldn't talk to server: %s" % what)
nltk.misc.babelfish.BabelizerIOError: Couldn't talk to server: [Errno socket err
or] [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed
>>>
>>> babelfish.available_languages
['Chinese', 'English', 'French', 'German', 'Greek', 'Italian', 'Japanese', 'Kore
an', 'Portuguese', 'Russian', 'Spanish']

In stead, I found a source code in http://nltk.org/_modules/nltk/misc/babelfish.html

...
try:
        response = urllib.urlopen('http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt', params)

    except IOError as what:
        raise BabelizerIOError("Couldn't talk to server: %s" % what)
...

The url does not exist then return the error message.