Stream: german (d-a-ch)
Topic: IG publisher language support
Grahame Grieve (Mar 31 2017 at 06:32):
http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=IG_Publisher_Documentation#Language_Support - comments welcome before I start developing
Stefan Lang (Mar 31 2017 at 07:50):
Regarding passing untranslated text to an internal translation service: that means some dictionary based automated translation, right?
Automation can go horribly wrong, and IGs describe standards, where subtle changes in meaning may be important.
So I suggest leaving automated translation optional either to the user (who in return would get a button in the UI saying "translate that for me") or possibly to leave that decision to the IG editor. Like, a parameter "automated-translation" with the options "disallow", "user-select" and "force".
Grahame Grieve (Mar 31 2017 at 19:57):
the internal translation service uses a map file edited by the IG author. If the author doesn't probvide a translation, no translation happens
Stefan Lang (Mar 31 2017 at 21:39):
I see. So I misinterpreted the following, still undefined, part ("Sharing Language Translations Across IGs")
Grahame Grieve (Apr 01 2017 at 02:30):
well, I had not thought to introduce anything but manual translation there - no automatic service
Grahame Grieve (Apr 01 2017 at 02:31):
I still remember the sign on the eiffel tower auto-translated from Frnech explaining that the tower was fallen due to it's genes (or something like that - my rudimentary french was enough to figure out that the really wanted to say 'closed due to work', forget the exact wrong implication in the translation)
Stefan Lang (Apr 01 2017 at 14:23):
Such things are what I was afraid of ;-) But maybe the term "translation service" is misleading and needs to be clarified
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