MultilingualWeb

If you would like to exhibit a poster during the MultilingualWeb workshop in Luxembourg, 15-16 March, please contact Manuel Tomas Carrasco Benitez (manuel.carrasco-benitez at ec.europa.eu) and copy Richard Ishida (ishida@w3.org) for more details.

We made the decision to accept poster applications quite late in the process, as a result of requests from attendees. If you are interested, please make contact as soon as possible, since the deadline for registrations is now only a week away.

A translate attribute was recently added to HTML5. At the three MultilingualWeb workshops we have run over the past two years, the idea of this kind of ‘translate flag’ has constantly excited strong interest from localizers, content creators, and from folks working with language technology. Richard Ishida has written a blog post describing how the attribute is meant to work, and describing support for the attribute in Google Translate and Microsoft Translator. He also hints at some ways in which the translate flag could be extended.

META-NET and Lionbridge are sponsoring the 3rd workshop in the MultilingualWeb series, which will be held in Limerick, Ireland on 21-22 September 2011. (See the Call for Participation and the recently published Program.)

If your organization would like to also sponsor the workshop, see how to apply. The deadline for sponsorship proposals for Limerick is 7 September 2011.

FLaReNet is also endorsing the workshop.

Given that the next workshop is in Limerick, we have translated the MultilingualWeb site into Irish.

There are a few user interface terms that are still pending translation, and as for all of the languages the reports, program, call for participation, etc. are still in English (mostly because we don't have the resources to deal with those, and partly because the workshop is in English). But a large amount of text on the site and the navigation is now in Irish.

In addition to Irish, we have translated the site into Spanish, German, French, Italian and Romanian.

There are also two widgets at the bottom of each page, one from Microsoft and one from Google, that allow you to get gist translations of parts of the site that are not translated, or get gist translations into many other languages.

(For more information about the Limerick workshop, see http://multilingualweb.eu/register)