[Clipart] Translations

[Seb]

Hi,
I was more interested in translation the interface but this is really 
very cool indeed.

I deal in 3 different languages an a daily basis so I can tell you right 
now there are a number of issues with this idea. :)

Going from English to one language is one thing. But since we will need 
to cater for Speakers of different languages it will quickly become 
complicated. The problems is not necessarily the search/translator you 
are building but more the way it will interact with the current 
implementation of OCAL.

But many issue come in play. For example how does it deal with words it 
can't find? Slang etc? What does it do if a series of tag are not all 
the same language? What about those languages not handle by google? And 
how does it know which languages the tags are in?

I suppose it can silently drop every word it can't deal with and move 
on. The problem is that smaller languages get automatically discarded.

I think each clip art should have a language attribute to specify the 
language it's meant to be in, because of the text it contains or maybe 
the idea it represent, etc.

That way the site automatically list all icons from the language the 
user using first and then attempts to translate the rest. The script 
checks the language attribute of the clipart and tries to translate into 
the language that the user is currently using on OCAL. But for this to 
work we would first need proper localisation.

Here's a nice example.

English
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/58183

Français
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/58123

Español
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/58117

Bislama
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/58843


Seb.

On 05/06/2010 05:06 AM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> Cool! Is there a url for this and/or wouldn't it be better to
> integrate language translation directly into Aiki? We have a plan for
> lang. translation.
>
> Jon
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:49 AM, COTTE ANDRÉ<cottea at grics.qc.ca>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi!
>>
>> We have begin to program a little search engine with keywords in French for
>> the Beta OCAL 2.  It works at the time.  We will have to revise it for the
>> officiel OCAL 2.
>>
>> The principle is simple.  We take a french keyword, ship it to Google
>> Translate, and make the search with the english word coming from Google.  It
>> works ok. Our big problem was the NSFW since we made this search engine for
>> schools.
>>
>> This search engine will work for any language supported by Google Translate.
>>
>> We planned to insert this little widget in school portal.
>>
>> For more information
>>
>> André Cotte cottea at grics.qc.ca  Layman information
>> Kevin Albert albertk at grics.qc.ca thechnical information
>>
>> André Cotte
>>
>>
>> Le 10-05-04 19:00, « Seb »<sebastien.lanteigne at gmail.com>  a écrit :
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>>> Quick question.
>>> How would one go about translating the OCAL interface in another language?
>>>
>>> Seb.
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