Understand Localization Standards and Use Them Effectively. John Watkins, President, ENLASO

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1 Understand Localization Standards and Use Them Effectively John Watkins, President, ENLASO

2 Agenda The Standards Universe Core Standards Using Standards

3 The Universe: Standards Evolution

4 Standards Definitions De facto Standards influence through prevalence. Standards may evolve from de facto standards through the cooperation of the industry and a relevant standards body. Standards Remove barriers for the purpose of performing functions that are within an industry Are approved and maintained by neutral third parties Have input from industry to avoid being locked into a proprietary solution Open Standards Do the above, but are publicly available (with open access rights) Natural coordination with open source software Luckily the core localization standards are Open Standards

5 Standards Benefits Standards help tools to work together Eases exchange of information among tools Freedom to work with a wide variety of tools Processes are developed independent of the tools Customer files The right linguists Consequently Tools are not constrained Workflow is easier Projects can be faster, better, and cheaper

6 Standards Information Standards management span various organizations OSCAR/LISA -> Disbanded Standards developed by OSCAR under LISA now under the Creative Commons Attribution license See GALA below European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Localization Industry Standards (LIS) Industry Specification Group as the successor for the LISA/OSCAR portfolio (TMX, TBX, SRX ): GALA Open Standards Initiative OSCAR standards: Coordination: ETSI, POASIS, Unicode Consortium, ISO TC 37 Linport project (open format translation packages): QT Launchpad flexible quality metrics for human and machine translation Tools Corner OASIS (XLIFF, DITA ): W3C (ITS, MultilingualWeb-LT ITS 2.0):

7 Core Standards Four Standards (three areas) that are open, stable, and work well: Translation memories TMX: Translation Memory exchange 1 Easily exchange of translation memory among tools Segmentation SRX: Segmentation Rules exchange 1 Provide a standard method to describe segmentation rules for TMs that are being exchanged among tools Extracted data ITS: Internationalization Tag Set 2 Used for XML to support the internationalization and localization of XML schemas and documents (XML, HTML5) XLIFF: XML Localisation Interchange File Format 3 To store localizable content and carry it from one step of the localization process to the other, while allowing interoperability among tools 1 See GALA Open Standards: 2 See W3C: 3 See OASIS:

8 Using Standards Look at an example project See the standards involved Use standards to provide localized files

9 Using Standards Open Source Open Standards fit with Open Source We work with the Okapi Framework Project 1 You can use the Okapi Framework to: 1. Manipulate and combine translation memories 2. Extract text with appropriate filters 2. Edit segmentation rules and apply them to content 2. Leverage from TM 2. Machine translate unmatched text 2. Create the translation package for the linguists 3. Rebuild translated files 1 See Okapi Framework project site at:

10 Example Project MIF File HTML File New version of the documents to translate (from HTML5 and FrameMaker applications) Trados TM TMX 1 Translation Memory from Trados Wordfast TM TMX 2 Translation Memory from Wordfast SRX Rules Segmentation rules for the TMs

11 FrameMaker MIF File

12 HTML5 File

13 Three Tasks 1. Consolidate TMs 2. Prepare the translation package for linguists 3. Post-process the files for delivery

14 1) Translation Memories TMX TMX (Translation Memory exchange) is the standard way to store source text segments and their corresponding translations Supported by most CAT tools Customer provided two TMs: Trados Wordfast

15 1) Combine TMs Four different tools sharing data through TMX Trados TM TMX 1 Rainbow Toolbox Pensieve TM Wordfast TM TMX 2

16 Three Tasks 1. Consolidate TMs 2. Prepare the translation package for linguists 3. Post-process the files for delivery

17 2) HTML5 Extraction ITS For XML and HTML5 documents, ITS (Internationalization Tag Set) describes what needs to be extracted and how to extract it W3C MultilingualWeb-LT WG is finishing the work on ITS 2.0 Lets use ITS rules to identify localizable text in the HTML5 document

18 2) ITS Rules

19 2) HTML5 Extraction ITS MIF File HTML File ITS Rules ITS rules specify what needs to be translated Pipeline Driven by Rainbow HTML5 Filter MIF Filter Content Extraction

20 2) Segmentation SRX Translation is done at the segment level SRX (Segmentation Rules exchange) describes where to break or not break the content into segments Having the rules for source segments allows better re-usability of existing TM, increasing exact matches Maintain SRX rules with an SRX Editor

21 2) Segmentation SRX Don t break segment after VS. V.S. vs. or v.s.

22 2) Segmentation SRX MIF File HTML File ITS Rules SRX Rules are key to sharing TMs Pipeline Driven by Rainbow HTML5 Filter MIF Filter Extraction Segmentation SRX Rules

23 2) Translation Kit XLIFF, TMX To flow through the translation process, the extracted content needs to be stored in a common format many tools understand XLIFF (XML Localisation Interchange File Format) is a standard way to represent extracted content TMX files with all the translation candidates found in the TM or from MT

24 2) Translation Kit XLIFF, TMX Open Source OmegaT TM workbench

25 2) Translation Kit XLIFF, TMX Tool independent kit MIF File HTML File ITS Rules HTML XLIFF MIF XLIFF TMX Translation Kit Etc. MIF Filter Extraction HTML5 Filter Segmentation Pipeline (Driven by Rainbow) Pre-translate from TM Pensieve TM Connector Pre-translate unmatched from MT Microsoft MT Connector Translation Kit Creation SRX Rules Pensieve TM Microsoft MT

26 Three Tasks 1. Consolidate TMs 2. Prepare the translation package for linguists 3. Post-process the files for delivery

27 3) Post-Processing HTML XLIFF MIF XLIFF TMX Translation Kit Etc. HTML File MIF File Pipeline (Driven by Rainbow) MIF Filter HTML5 Filter Translator Kit Filter Extraction Translation Kit Post- Processing

28 3) Translated FrameMaker MIF

29 3) Translated HTML

30 Three Tasks 1. Consolidate TMs 2. Prepare the translation package for linguists 3. Post-process the files for delivery

31 Summary We Know More about our standards We can (and do) use them today Next Steps Consider requiring Open Standards compliance with the tools you use to ensure portability Get Involved in the Standards Community GALA Standards Initiative GALA Connect Groups

32 References GALA Standards Initiative TMX 1.4b Translation Memory exchange ITS 1.0 Internationalization Tag Set SRX 2.0 Segmentation Rules exchange XLIFF 1.2 XML Localisation Interchange File Format Okapi Framework (Open Source & cross-platform)

33 Questions? John Watkins, President, ENLASO