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We explore the application of a wiki-based technology and style of interaction to enabling the incremental translation of a collaborative application into a number of different languages, including variant English language interfaces better suited to the needs of particular user communities. The development work allows us to explore in more detail...
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... is an example of a community-based translation system [21]. The Google search engine offers an impressive 150 different language options (see Figure 1). The community-based translation in Google is coordinated through the "Google in Your Language" program where users volunteer to become translators [15]. ...
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We propose a novel approach that allows in context localization of most commercial and open source software. Currently, the translation of textual resources of software (technical documents, online help, strings of the user interface, etc.) is entrusted only to professional translators. This makes the localization process long, expensive and sometimes of poor quality because professional translators have no knowledge about the context of use of the software. This current workflow seems impossible to apply for most under-resourced languages for reasons of cost, and quite often scarcity or even lack of professional translators. Our proposal aims at involving end users in the localization process in an efficient and dynamic way: while using an application (in context), users knowing the source language of the software (Often but not always English) could modify strings of the user interface presented by the application in their current context. So, users could translate in context buttons, menus, labels, tabpage, etc. or improve translations proposed by machine translation (MT) or translation memory (TM) systems. To implement this new paradigm, we modify the code as little as possible, very locally and in the same way for all software. Hence our localization method is internal. The implementation of such approach of localization required integration of a translation workflow built with SECTra_w. Thus, we have a new tripartite process of localization which parties are: the user, the software editor and the collaborative SECTra_w Web site. We have experimented our approach on Notepad-plus-plus and on Vuze, two open source applications.
The research work presented in this thesis belongs to the machine and machine-aided translation field. We are particularly interested in tools that help and promote online, free, non-commercial and incremental translation. The staggering growth of multilingual document translations on the Web (W3C, Traduct, free translation of human right documents, Mozilla, etc.) is the result of painstaking work of volunteer communities who are unfortunately technologically marginalized and deprived of the possibility to use any linguistic technology and computer-aided translation systems (CAT). We have conducted an in-depth study of volunteer communities and identified the most interesting and challenging problems. We have built BEYTrans, a collaborative, non-commercial environment that offers linguistic helps and meets the specific needs of these communities. Its 3 main modules are: (i) a multilingual Web editor integrating advanced and varied linguistic functionalities, (ii) a module for recycling existing translations and (iii) a module for managing and processing large multilingual data. Each solves a challenging problem, and they are fully integrated (with other functionalities) in a collaborative environment that has been successfully tested in real-world situations.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe multiple case studies based on free/open‐source software (F/OSS) web applications. F/OSS web applications were deployed to create a demo web‐portal for Swiss small‐ and medium‐sized tourism enterprises (SMTEs). The web‐portal will demonstrate web applications for the purpose of F/OSS awareness and their subsequent trials.
Design/methodology/approach
Multiple case studies using rapid prototyping methods to deploy F/OSS web applications were used.
Findings
It was found that a web‐portal for increasing awareness and enabling interactive trials in the context of web applications suited to service organisations such as the SMTEs would enable further investigation regarding F/OSS adoption in the SMTE community.
Research limitations/implications
Major components deployed in developing a web‐portal provide a limited set of trials and do not represent the wide range of F/OSS applications which might be applicable to the SMTE community.
Originality/value
F/OSS applications, especially web‐based business applications, are increasingly being adopted for commercial purposes. However, building awareness and enabling exploration of such applications in the context of SMTEs is still a rare occurrence.
The social value of Web applications is in their potential to be the conduit for many different types of applications to many
different people, using different resources and embedded in diverse contexts. Designing for flexibility involves many people,
with different skills, interests and levels of commitment, including, designers, developers and users. Tailorable features
in the user interface demand a clear bond between the phases in the whole software lifecycle, starting from requirements elicitation
to the design and development stages. As interaction patterns have been considered a promising approach to bridge the gaps
between analysis, design and implementation of usability related features, this work first investigates and synthesizes from
literature a set of interaction patterns related to tailoring activities. From this analysis, a semiotic-informed categorization
of tailorable user interface features is presented and discussed; an elicitation pattern for tailorable user interface features
illustrates the usefulness of the proposal.
BEYTrans (Better Environment for Your TRANSlation) is a generic Wiki tool designed to support communities of volunteer translators not only by offering them an online translation editor and helps to manage the translation progress, but a complete online computer-assisted translation (CAT) environment including a translation editor, translation memories, free dictionaries, automatic calls to machine translation (MT) systems, and support to collaborative volunteer translation. We present the basic concepts of BEYTrans and its experimentation on the translation from Italian to French of the DEMGOL project (OnLine Etymological Dictionary of the Greek Mythology).
This chapter tells the story of the Inquiry Group, which has supported professional development through both online and offline means, thriving for more than 25 years. Many other projects have been designed to foster online, professional development communities, but the story of the Inquiry Group looks quite different. We explore here the nature of the group, the reasons for the differences, and the implications for how to study online community building. published or submitted for publication is peer reviewed
