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S-Bahn Tool: Experience and

Planned Features Sam Joachim

5th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005

Institute of Informatics, Humboldt University – Berlin, Germany, joachim@informatik.hu-berlin.de

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S-Bahn Tool:

Authoring tool for localization of PowerPoint material

Features:Multi-lingual technical dictionary

precise translationCommon layout in all language variants

maintainabilityReuse of translations in other slides

save effort

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History

Sept. 2004: 1st prototype June 2005: 2nd prototype

Improved SW: more adaptable architecture, faster, errors removed

Changed user interface Usage:

Zoran Putnik, Natasa Ibrajter, Katerina Zdravkova, Boro Jakimovski

valuable feedback: errors and usability

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Tool at

work

Translator

Target language

Topic to be translated

Additional languages to be

displayed

Source language

S. Stoyanov

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Use of S-Bahn Tool: 3 step process

Translation

Modification

Common layout

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Selected experience: 1. Statistics concerning the common layout featurebased on Topic03 " Software process models", 42 slides

Num

ber

of

chan

ges

Albanian Bulgarian Croatian Macedonian Romanian Serbian cyrillic Serbian latin

Slides with layout changes Changed shapes

7

14

21

29

39

17

9

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Selected experience (cont.): 2. Style guides for reasonable design of

slides are also useful for efficient translation process (e.g. headlines, …)

3. Distributed localization process: roles Preparation of the topic file: Layout specialist Translation: national translator Common layout & post-processing : Layout

specialist Maintenance of the dictionary: central editor

with support from national (local) translators

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Planned and suggested features:feedback wanted!

Simple interface for translation only Readability of slides by/with less resolution, role

Connection with an SE glossary (or other free web dictionaries) Configuration:

Easy support for different projects (e.g. for the use in JCSE, OO Java, CC, TEMPUS modules, …)

other source languages than English Different technical dictionaries

SE – IEEE glossary, Case study – SemOrg / XCTL, OOJava More support for importing hand-translated variants Advanced style adaptations (text, shapes, colors) Pool for frequent used objects or slides Displaying the original text during translation, perhaps dual monitor

support Integrating a Translation Memory System in S-Bahn Tool

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Sim

ple interface for translation S-Bahn Tool

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Connection with an SE glossary

S-Bahn Tool

Dictionaries

- translation support

SE Glossary(Multilingual) - translation support - additional information

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Configuration: Projects, Language

Easy setup for different project environments for the use in JCSE, OO Java, CC, TEMPUS modules, …

Full functionality for other source languages than English

Project:

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Different technical dictionaries

S-Bahn Tool

Complete Dictionary

SemOrg terms

XCTL terms

JCSE terms

CC terms

JAVA terms

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More support for importing

S-Bahn Tool

Slides

English Romanian …

Dictionary Scenario:

A translation without S-Bahn Tool by hand

Bulgarian

include

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Advanced style adaptations

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Pool for frequently used objects or slides

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Other examples

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Original:

Displaying the original text during translation