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Yoshiki Hayashi
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Fri, 19 Nov 2004
Translation project
My current interest in open source world is whether we can form a community
arround translation project. Most translation project are very small and
I've yet to see active community dedicated to do translations. (Please let me
know if you know one.)
It's hard to cooperate in translation project because many things are drudgery. Unlike software libraries, translations are not reusable. My conjecture is that if you can search and reuse translatins just like reusable software components, there's a chance of having a community around that.
I'm also interested in writing tools to free translators from some of the drudgery like synching translation when changes are made to the original documents. I think gettext tools can handle that kind of things for po files but I don't know if there's any tool to do that for XML files we use. It looks so simple but it's not very easy to automate it in a satisfactory manner.
It seems a bit odd for me to start writing these kind of tools after doing everything manually for four years. I've been skeptical about natural language processing because it doesn't always work well. But I changed my mind largely thanks to my summer intern experience and am willing to investigate some of my time to this field.
Las Vegas
Today and tomorrow, I'm going to stay at Luxor hotel. This city is too spread out
like almost any other cities in America. I'm not a big fun of this city but
I'm going to do some sightseeing before I go back. I don't intend to
come back to Las Vegas in the future so this is the last chance for me to
have the taste of the city. (Yeah, I know. I didn't plan to come back to U.S.
for a while when I left the country in early June but this is already the
second visit in the same year.)