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THE MULTILINGUALWEB-LT PROJECT DRUPALCON MUNICH, GERMANY. AUGUST 21, 2012

The current state of …

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COCOMORE ESSENTIALS

THE MULTILINGUALWEB-LT PROJECT

Agency for integrated communication and IT services

130 employees

Offices in Germany and Bulgaria

Our clients include Fresenius, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, PwC, RTL, Sanofi-Aventis

Drupal is our CMS of choice

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WHAT WE WILL TALK ABOUT TODAY

1 THE MULTILINGUALWEB-LT PROJECT. AN OVERVIEW

2 METADATA STANDARDIZATION AND WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED

3 OUR PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STANDARD IN DRUPAL

4 CONCLUSION AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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MULTILINGUAL CONTENT: AN ESSENTIAL BUT (STILL) INSUFFICIENT PART OF THE WEB

THE MULTILINGUALWEB-LT PROJECT. AN OVERVIEW

Less than 33% of Web users are native English speakers • We need content for all non-English speakers too

• Knowledge and business opportunities shouldn’t be constrained by language borders

• Many people already use online translation engines for on-demand translation, but the quality can be lacking and some languages may not be supported

Translation is a US$ 21–26 billion per year business and steadily growing

Translation overhead amounts to 20% due to lack of standards

Reducing translation costs and increasing translation speed can help provide content to more Web users

Source: http://www.w3.org/2012/02/mlw-lt.html.en

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To achieve the ambitous goal of helping the multilingual Web progress, the MultilingualWeb-LT project aims to

• create the translation metadata standard ITS 2.0, which will help translators and multilingual content managers deal with multilingual content

• bring CMS and localization chain closer together.

• Of course we also want to foster adoption of the results.

Both goals shall further the access to language resources and help increase the availability of multilingual content.

But why do we need metadata?



LT = Language technologies; ITS = Internationalization Tag Set

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Metadata can assist the choice of LT resources

• Domain & genre

• Such information can help LSPs use the right lexicon and syntax for their translation systems or make human translators aware of particular content requirements. A medical text, for example has different requirements than a cooking recipe.

Metadata may guide the translation process and ensure quality

• Do-not-translate items and terminology

• This will help machine translation services and human translators know about what parts of a content may or may not be translatable or what parts are terminology which need to be translated with care.

WHY METADATA ARE IMPORTANT


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Do-not-translate items and terminology

METADATA – EXAMPLES, PLEASE?


Domain & genre

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Of course in the content at the LSP, but CMS also needs to store these metadata

• That includes the CMS’ ability to enhance content with metadata and manage these metadata

CMS need to be able to send content to the LSP while preserving the metadata even when the LSP requires a particular file format

WHERE DOES THIS METADATA NEED TO BE?


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Thirteen partners working on the standard and its implementation until the end of 2013

We will make Drupal the first open-source CMS to handle MultilingualWeb-LT metadata

WHOSE DOING THE WORK?


We also work with a W3C Working Group which includes an even wider range of partners working on the standard. We hope to bring the standard to W3C Recommendation status by the end of 2013! An ambitious goal indeed.

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Several rounds of requirements gathering • The consortium and the W3C Working Group approached all those whom the

standard aims to please: LSPs of all kinds and content producers

• Collecting requirements of a standard from each such party • Collating the information and generating of metadata categories from these

requirements

REQUIREMENTS GATHERING

METADATA STANDARDIZATION AND WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED

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Published metadata standard ITS 2.0 draft

• The collected and defined categories were then published as the first ITS 2.0 draft

• The draft is in its second iteration now and a third is coming soon

• We plan on having a “feature final” draft by November

• The current draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/its20/

PUBLISHED METADATA STANDARD

METADATA STANDARDIZATION AND WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED

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Due to security considerations, the CMS will only act as “client” sending and requesting information from the LSP “server”

PROGRESS – DEFINED API BETWEEN CMS & LSP

PROGRESS IN THE MULTILINGUALWEB-LT PROJECT

Web Publisher

Language Service Provider

Translation, Enrichment, Quality Assurance ...

Multilingual Web Content

service request

content

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Drupal is being enhanced to allow the inclusion of the MultilingualWeb-LT metadata, using the ITS 2.0 standard

Three ways to apply metadata:

• 1. by the content manager through an extension to the WYSIWYG module

• 2. through automatic process either in the CMS or through a service

• 3. by the processes and technologies of the LSP

2+3 use Plugins for the Translation management module

Connection to multiple LSPs with XLIFF roundtripping

XLIFF: An OASIS Standard

PROGRESS – DRUPAL INTEGRATION


d.o/project/tmgmt d.o/project/wysiwyg

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Localization_Interchange_File_Format

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Interface to Language Service Providers

• extends the TMgmt module with LSP adaptors

• provides tool set for XLIFF (popular format for LSP systems) roundtripping

THE PROTOTYPE INTERFACE WITH LSPS


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Allows for local attribution

Global attribution supports XPATH v1 selectors as required by the proposed ITS 2.0 standard

• Localisation notes

• Named entities

• Translate language information

PROTOTYPE: METADATA SUPPORTED


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Cocomore: [email protected]

W3C Working Group

• w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/

Translation Management Module

• d.o/project/tmgmt

Drupal Discussion

• g.d.o/multilingualweb-lt

MORE INFOS AND CONTACT


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The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group receives funding by the European Commission (project name LT-Web) through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Grant Agreement No. 287815 - http://l.olav.net/fp7-lt-web

FUNDING


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