Introduction of translation assistance tool

1. Let s Localize your plug-ins by using
translation assistance tool “Benten”
March 23, 2010
Motoki MORI
NEC Soft, Ltd.
Eclipse Japanization consortium

2. Self Introduction
▐ Name: Motoki MORI
▐ Job title: Manager
Promoting Globalization of software products and services
▐ Company: NEC Soft, Ltd. (Tokyo Japan)
▐ The leader of Eclipse J10n Consortium
(Sub-working group of Japan WG)
▐ mori-m@mxa.nes.nec.co.jp
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3. 1. Eclipse Japan Working Group
▐ Some Japanese software venders had associated a working group
Launched in 2005
Consists of NTT Comware, Fujitsu, Hitachi Corporation, Hitachi Software,
IBM Japan, and NEC Corporation
Seminars for using Eclipse IDE
Seminars for Developing Eclipse RCP applications
Japanese market needed a language pack.
We informed activity and asked cooperation in
EclipseCon2008 to committers of Babel project
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4. 2. Joint session with Babel in EclipseCon2009
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5. 3. Translation Assistance tool “Benten”
Goal:
▐ Establishing sustainable translation community for localizing
help files with a few core members
Supporting scalability of community
Capability of controlling translation quality
▐ For the purpose, we provide:
Translation assistance tools “Benten”
Role based workflow and supporting tools (translation workflow
assistance tools and translation community server)
Translation memory & glossary (English-Japanese)
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6. 3. Translation Assistance tool “Benten”
Concept:
▐ Definition of roles
▐ Definition of translation workflow
▐ Emphasizing review by engineers
▐ Efficient translation and review with integrated assistance
Features:
▐ Implemented as an Eclipse plug-in
▐ Provided as an open source under EPL
▐ Efficient translation and review by using XLIFF(*) Editor
integrated with translation memory.
▐ Applicable to .properties and other formats by developing a
filters
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7. 3. Translation Assistance tool “Benten”
For everyone, cleverly, easily
▐ For everyone
This is a free ITE (Integrated translation Environment).
You will be able to download it from Babel project site.
▐ Cleverly
This tool integrates a full-fledged translation memory(TM).
By using previous translation and terminology effectively,
all community can realize high-quality translation.
▐ Easily
TM, terminology, validator are integrated seamlessly with
translation editor. It provides you with comfort
environment for translation by reducing unnecessary
manipulations.
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8. 3. Translation Assistance tool “Benten”
Integrated
translation Translation
Environment Memory
pane
on Eclipse
XLIFF editor
pane for Terminology
translation and pane
review
Validator
pane
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9. The effect 1 Difference translation
Applying previous translation
You don’t have to translate
same sentence any more.
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10. The effect 2 Making use of similar translation
Similar translations are shown in order of similarity.
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11. The effect 3 Reducing flicker of translation
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by shared-TM to TM
$aCollecting
translation result
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12. 4. Sample of system architecture in Japan
Benten
Translation Assistance tools
XLIFF Editor
Translator Search and get TM
Search and get Glossary
Translation community server
Validate Translation Task User
Reviewer management management
Wiki Resource
Translation workflow Management System
admin
assistance tools
Mailing list Repository
Transform original to XLIFF
Translation Pick out and Merge
Coordinator
XLIFF Machine translation
Translation Statistics
Translation Maintenance TM
committer
; This glossary is donated by Pleiades project.
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13. 7. Demonstration
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14. 8. Current status
▐ We tried to make translation memory for help translation. As a
result we made translated help files of Platform, JDT, WTP and
Mylyn into Japanese.
I donated them Babel project and it has been released as a part of
Japanese language pack.
▐ The source code of Benten Version 1.0 will be opened soon at
SourceForge.JP
▐ I have already contact with committer of Babel project, and check
about how to contribute our tool to Babel.
▐ I have already open new bug in order to ask IP check of source
code.
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15. I hope that my proposal will be
accepted.
mori-m@mxa.nes.nec.co.jp