LEO (meaning link everything online) is an internet site run by the computer science department of the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany. It is well known for its software archive which mirrors several important open-source servers and its free online dictionaries.
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Contents
- 1 Dictionaries
- 1.1 English-German
- 1.2 French-German
- 1.3 Spanish-German
- 2 History
- 3 Name
- 4 Reference
- 5 External links
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Dictionaries
English-German
The English-German dictionary run by Leo since 1995 is probably the most extensive translation dictionary available online for these languages. It contains more than 420,000 entries and receives an average of 5 million queries per day.
French-German
In 2004 a French-German dictionary was added to the site's services, with about 144,000 entries. This gets about 400,000 queries a day.
Spanish-German
A Spanish-German dictionary with almost 100,000 entries was introduced on April 1, 2006.
Since April 1, 2006 the dictionaries have been run (in co-operation with Munich University) by the limited company Leo GmbH, formed from the members of the old Leo team.
History
The site grew out of a network of FTP software and archived data which was put together by students at Munich University of Technology and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich even before HTML and HTTP existed. The original aim was to create a single, huge archive by linking up archives run by the different research groups. The archive was sorted thematically and the different sections organised and kept up to date by archivists.
When the World Wide Web came into common use, HTTP access to the archive was at first added as an alternative to FTP. Students developed various services in their free time, in particular the dictionaries.
Name
The name of the site is actually a backronym from the name Leo: the Bavarian coat of arms features a lion. Originally, the service was named ISAR, but it had to be renamed as there was another firm of the same name.
Reference
- Some of this article was translated from the German language version of this page.
External links
- LEO's entry page (in German)
- The dictionary (in German)
- The dictionary (in English)
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