Practical Visualization of ITS 2.0 Categories for Real
World Localization Process
Part of the Multilingual Web-LT Program
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WHAT IS ITS AND WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT
 The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) is a set of attributes and elements designed
to provide internationalization and localization support in XML and HTML
documents. It also defines implementations of these concepts
 XML developers can use this namespace to integrate internationalization features
directly into their own XML schemas and documents
 The set is currently almost ready/frozen
 We believe that this is a one of the key standards for localization industry
 The set includes a number of categories of crucial importance to translators:
 Terminology note and Localization Note metadata
 Translate (yes/no) metadata to mark non-translatable text
 ITS metadata make it possible to include various instructions for translators into
documents, add terminology and comments, and mark non-translatable segments
 Will reduce inconsistency in adding translation instructions to documents
 Provides a universal interface for transferring translation metadata between tools
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WHY ARE WE DOING THIS: DETAILS
 To make it possible to comment translatable content irrespective of its nature
 To make these instructions easily accessible to translators and editors
 Including recommendations, instructions, terminology suggestions
 Independent from translation tools
 Saving time: The text is already marked with context information
 One doesn’t have to think whether smth. NEEDS TO BE TRANSLATED or not
 One doesn’t have to think whether smth. IS A TERM or not
 Key advantages/improvements:
 Time (i.e. cost)
 Quality (fewer translation errors)
 Also very important for machine translation applications (post-editing in
context)
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WHY ARE WE DOING THIS: WORKFLOW PARADIGM CHANGE
 FROM:
 Bulk manual translation of “raw” content or post-editing “raw” machine-translation
output
 When external terminology glossaries, localization instructions and reference data are
matched with content in indirect manner mostly in translator’s brain on-the-fly and to the
extent of his/her understanding of these instructions and personal skills
 TO:
 Using natural language processing (NLP) tools and ITS metadata markup to pre-
populate content to be translated or post-edited with context-related information
 When external terminology glossaries, localization instructions and reference data are
matched with content directly through automated process of preliminary linguistic analysis
 Pre-processing is controlled by dedicated qualified linguists/terminologists/editors
 PROVIDED THAT:
 Glossaries, instructions and reference data are converted into format compatible with NLP
tools and ITS markup
 And corresponding content searching algorithms are created (including fuzzy algorithms)
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WHAT IS BEING DEVELOPED
 ITS 2.0 implementation project, a part of the Multilingual Web-LT program funded
by EU
 Developing the ITS Browser Plugin as a building block of future “Work In Context
System” (WICS)
 Making it possible to view standard ITS (Internationalization Tag Set) translationrelated metadata contained in XML, XLIFF, or HTML files
 Can be done in parallel with translating using CAT tools or for reviewing materials
 The JavaScript plugin would support most popular browsers
 For previewing XML or XLIFF, standalone filters for conversion into HTML will be
used
 Implementation:
 Standard-based preview solution: HTML5, Java Script, Web browser
 A script located in the same folder as HTML files
 The script is started by the browser automatically
 It is expected that both scripts and filters will be publicly available
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THE PROJECT IDEA
 ITS metadata-enriched XML or XLIFF files: what’s
inside?
 Previewing ITS metadata in Web browser while
translating content in any CAT tool
 Standard-based preview solution: HTML5, Java Script,
Web browser
 Next step: ITS metadata as a carrier for localization
instructions and any reference data
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THE WORK BREAKDOWN: PROJECT COMPONENTS
Visual designs
Java scripts to render and navigate metadata and content
Rich sample files
Content format conversion algorithms:
 XML+ITS -> HTML5+ITS*
 XLIFF+ITS -> HTML5+ITS*
 XML+ITS -> XLIFF+ITS (just an example)
 HTML+ITS -> HTML5+ITS*
* For the purposes of visualization, some redundant ITS syntax options for
HTML are not supported.
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THE PROJECT CORE: VISUAL DESIGNS
Screen space limitations in localization process:
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THE PROJECT CORE: VISUAL DESIGNS (CONT.)
Collapsed view of metadata
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THE PROJECT CORE: VISUAL DESIGNS (CONT.)
Expanded view of metadata
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THE PROJECT CORE: VISUAL DESIGNS (CONT.)
Summary view of metadata
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THE PROJECT CORE: VISUAL DESIGNS (CONT.)
Color highlighting to indicate metadata linked to content
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THE PROJECT CORE: VISUAL DESIGNS (CONT.)
Visual “tags” to indicate metadata linked to content
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THE PROJECT CORE: VISUAL DESIGNS (CONT.)
Visual tags to highlight metadata (example)
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DEVELOPMENT STATUS
Sample files: to be completed by end of May
File conversion algorithms: to be completed by Sep 30:
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XML+ITS -> XLIFF+ITS (July) (sample)
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XML+ITS -> HTML5+ITS (August)
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HTML+ITS -> HTML5+ITS (August)
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XLIFF+ITS -> HTML5+ITS (September)
Visualization scripts: to be completed by end of June
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KNOWN ISSUES: FORMAT CONVERSIONS
“Translation” of XPath expressions from source XML
to target HTML
XLIFF: MRK element to be used instead of SPAN
Selection between SPAN and DIV elements in output HTML
Merging external ITS rule files into internal list of rules
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KNOWN ISSUES: METADATA VISUALIZATION
Parsing local standoff markup along with other rules
Parsing list of merged ITS rules
Hyperlinks embedded in metadata
Static definitions like “Do not translate” for Translate category
Highlighting active ITS item
Displaying summary of all ITS items
Parsing nested ITS metadata
Differences in Java Script implementation between browsers
Navigation through content and ITS items
Fragmentation of content to avoid large pieces of text to be
displayed
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LIVE DEMO
The demo samples are built on the preliminary versions of visual
designs and illustrate just a few ITS data categories:
Localization Note
Terminology
Translate
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THANK YOU!
Questions?
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