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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. S-Bahn Tool:.
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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 S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
S-Bahn Tool: • Authoring tool for localization of PowerPoint material • Features: • Multi-lingual technical dictionary precise translation • Common layout in all language variants maintainability • Reuse of translations in other slides save effort S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
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 S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Tool at work Topic to be translated S. Stoyanov Translator Source language Additional languages to be displayed Target language S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Use of S-Bahn Tool: 3 step process Translation Modification Common layout S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Selected experience: 1. Statistics concerning the common layout feature based on Topic03 " Software process models", 42 slides 39 29 Number of changes 21 17 14 9 7 Albanian Bulgarian Croatian Macedonian Romanian Serbian cyrillic Serbian latin Slides with layout changes Changed shapes S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Selected experience (cont.): • Style guides for reasonable design of slides are also useful for efficient translation process (e.g. headlines, …) • 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 S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
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 S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
S-Bahn Tool Simple interface for translation S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
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Connection with an SE glossary S-Bahn Tool Dictionaries • translation support SE Glossary (Multilingual) • translation support • additional information S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
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: S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Different technical dictionaries S-Bahn Tool JCSE terms Complete Dictionary CC terms JAVA terms SemOrg terms XCTL terms S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
include More support for importing S-Bahn Tool Scenario: A translation without S-Bahn Tool by hand Dictionary Slides Bulgarian Romanian English … S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Advanced style adaptations S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Pool for frequently used objects or slides S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Other examples S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005
Displaying the original text during translation Original: S-Bahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features, Baile Herculane, Romania, 2005