Going Global : Using Best Effort Translation To Build High Quality Multilingual Websites
When & Where
Day: Thursday
Time: 16:10 - 16:55
Room: Dutchess 1+2
Audience:
Tutorial,
Developers,
Integrators,
Enterprise,
Government.
What
Best effort translation, which dynamically combines machine translation with human translations from volunteers or professional translators, enables you to create high quality multilingual websites, while also optimizing for cost, quality and response time. Unlike traditional translation methods, which are slow and expensive, this methodology enables you to publish draft translations immediately while improving them as human translations and corrections come in.
This session introduces the principles of best effort translation systems, and explains how the process can be implemented in a wide variety of web publishing environments, as well as an overview of open source translation tools and resources.
Who
Brian McConnell
Worldwide Lexicon
Brian McConnell is the founder of the Worldwide Lexicon, an open source, collaborative translation platform that combines machine translations with human translations submitted by volunteers or professional translators.
