SBahn Tool: Experience and Planned Features

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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_at_informatik.hu-berlin.de

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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

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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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Topic to be translated
S. Stoyanov
Translator
Source language
Additional languages to be displayed
Target language
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Changed interface

• 3 tabs
• some more functions

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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
  feature
• based on Topic03 " Software process models", 42
  slides

39
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Number of changes
21
17
14
9
7
Albanian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Macedonian
Romanian
Serbian cyrillic
Serbian latin
Slides with layout changes
Changed shapes
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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

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Planned and suggested featuresfeedback 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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Simple interface for translation
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S
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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
JCSE terms
Complete Dictionary
CC terms
JAVA terms
SemOrg terms
XCTL terms
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More support for importing
S-Bahn Tool
Scenario A translation without S-Bahn Tool by
hand
Dictionary
Slides
Bulgarian
English
Romanian

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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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Displaying the original text during translation
Original