README.Term.Translation ======================= Guo Jin (guojin@iss.nus.sg) Aug. 13, 1994 General steps: (1) get the raw text to be translated; (Human) (2) extract (technical) terms and phrases; (Machine) (3) clean up and translate the extracted terms; (Human) (4) replace English terms with their Chinese translations; (Machine) (5) verify and update the translated terms in context; If satisfied with the term translation, go to translate the remaining text; otherwise, go to step (4); (Human/Machine). Concrete project: The first project is to get the English linux installration guide to be translated into Chinese. What we are doing is as below: (1) get the raw text to be translated; (Human) Anonymously ftp to sunsite.unc.edu under /pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/install-guide to get the following file: -rw-r--r-- 1 guojin 602200 Aug 13 17:36 install-guide-2.1.1.txt (2) extract (technical) terms nad phrases; (Machine) Use a specially designed program (paulwu@iss.nus.sg) to extract all possible terms. The result is the following file: -rw-r--r-- 1 guojin 88144 Aug 13 13:50 extracted.terms.install-guide-2.0.txt (3) clean up and translate the extracted terms; (Human) Post the extracted terms to mailing list to get it cleaned and translated by volunteers. The current result is in file: -rw-r--r-- 1 guojin 22807 Aug 13 13:54 linux.terms.eng-cht.0.0.0.bg5 Currently only terms with first letter a-d got translated by John Shen jshen@cas.org (John Shen 614-447-3600 X3109)) and have not been verified. Thanks, John. More volunteers are more than welcome. (4) replace English terms with their Chinese translations; (Machine) Given termbank linux.terms.eng-cht.0.0.0.bg5 and text file install-guide-2.1.1.txt, to replace each English terms in the termbank with their corresponding Chinese translation, just type: make Text.in.Chinese.Term For technical details, please see also file makefile and all the flex programs with suffix .l (All programs here are in Public domain. You're encouraged to modify and improve them.) and we get the result in file: -rw-r--r-- 1 guojin 534076 Aug 13 17:07 Text.in.Chinese.Term (5) verify and update the translated terms in context; If satisfied with the term translation, go to translate the remaining text; otherwise, go to step (4); (Human/Machine). Now, your turn :-) -----------