While We Wait For The Babel Fish

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  1. While We Wait for the Babel Fish Stephanie Booth
  2. Human? Internet
      • Languages
      • in the human world
      • on the internet
      • Is it a fit?
  3. Multilingual Humans
      • Who is multilingual?
      • more multilinguals than monolinguals
      • Being human among humans means living in a state of ever incomplete multilingualism.
      • Mario Wandruszka
  4. What are my languages?
      • know / don't know (too binary)
    Know? Speak? Read? Write? Read a book? A newspaper article? Have a conversation? Write a letter? Write a book? Give a talk?
  5. Internet: Space Cruncher
      • Freedom from spatial constraints
      • more intercultural contact
      • change of initial obstacle:
      • space language
  6. Linguistic Borders
      • Online, the strongest borders are linguistic.
      • Some multilingual people act as bridges.
      • How could our tools assist them in their task?
  7. Monolingual Silos
      • But the internet is multilingual!
      • multilingual community
      • <>
      • multilingual people
      • multiple monolingual spaces
      • mixing languages
  8. L10n advice for Tool Builders
      • localise early, localise smart
      • plan non-EN from the start (not an afterthought)
      • language != country
      • regional variations (fr-fr, fr-ch, fr-qc...)
      • crowdsource
      • in-house « linguist »
      • smart user language detection
  9. Detecting User Language
      • Specified by:
      • profile (tool-side)
      • browser preferences
      • OS/browser language
      • geographical location
      • one language? n languages?
      • priority?
      • how proficient?
  10. Misconceptions
      • But everybody speaks English!
      • country = language
  11. Geographical Abuse
      • IP => country => language, right?
      • Guilty: PayPal, Amazon, eBay, Google
    country != language bad localisation
  12. Countries can be important
    • for language: one factor amongst several
    • for laws: very important
    • taxes & censorship
    • Examples:
    • - shipping
    • - porn
  13. L10n Insufficient
    • Localisation:
    • translation of the interface into another language
    • monolingual in various languages
    • « Multilingualisation »: (yes, it's ugly)
    • mixing languages
    • manages code-switching
    • different language combinations
  14. Blogging Tools: WordPress
    • well localised
    • language is a blog-level attribute
    • assumes you blog in one language
    • no in-built strategies for mixing languages
    • => 1 blog per language
    • a solution: other-language excerpts
    • translation is too hard
    • keeps mono&multi audience quite happy
    • keeps the bridge-blogger very happy
  15. Presence Tools: Twitter
    • not localised => adoption issue
    • non-EN communities present
    • language filtering?
    • language detection?
  16. The Multilingual Challenge
    • Making a space both:
    • multilingual-friendly
    • monolingual-friendly
    • How do we keep everybody happy?
    • different language combinations
    • different language skills
    • No solution is perfect for everybody.
  17. Going Multilingual a strategic and technical problem
    • Strategic
    • how do we allow languages to mix?
    • what do we translate?
    • what do we show people?
    • how do people define their language skills?
    • Technical
    • design
    • encoding
    • lang, hreflang (HTML)
    • language detection
    • automated translation
    Remember. Most people are multilingual.
  18. Bonne route !
    • Flickr Photo Credits
    • romerican
    • Paco CT
    • Antoon Kuper
    • Hobvias Sudoneighm
    • Grant MacDonald
    • Zoom Zoom
    • A JC
    • Claude Covo-Farchi
    • Stephanie Booth
    • Lausanne, Switzerland
    • http://climbtothestars.org
    • [email_address]
    • Skype: steph-booth
    reboot9, 31.05-01.06.2007 Copenhagen

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