| Presentation | 2005/7/16 A method of creating reference to PII strings in manuals Naotaka KATO, Makoto ARISAWA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Most of the software programs require interaction with users. Such programs use text strings to communicate with users. Those strings are separated from its program into text files and are called "Program Integrated Information (PII)." Those strings in text files are translated into each language when the program is localized. The manuals of the program include those strings to refer to the strings shown in the program's GUI. When there is an update to PII, the affected parts of the manuals need to be updated as well. The affected strings in the manuals are searched by global search functions such as Grep. But the search picks up a lot of non-PII strings in manuals and those non-PII strings needs to be removed from update candidates by human inspection. Translators often give up searching if the number of strings is too large for inspection. Our research found a method to create a reference list (hyperlinks) of PII strings in text files to the PII strings in manuals that do not include non-PII strings. This method does not require translators to check non-PII nor to wait for Grep completion. Lastly, but not least, this paper presents a new view to the relation between PII and program semantics by referring the propositional logic. |
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| Keyword(in English) | translation / PII / Program Integrated Information / manual / scenario / meaning / model / GUI / propositional logic |
| Paper # | NLC2005-17 |
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| Conference Date | 2005/7/16(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | A method of creating reference to PII strings in manuals |
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| Keyword(1) | translation |
| Keyword(2) | PII |
| Keyword(3) | Program Integrated Information |
| Keyword(4) | manual |
| Keyword(5) | scenario |
| Keyword(6) | meaning |
| Keyword(7) | model |
| Keyword(8) | GUI |
| Keyword(9) | propositional logic |
| 1st Author's Name | Naotaka KATO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Translation Service Center, IBM Japan, Ltd.() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Makoto ARISAWA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Environmental Information and Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University |
| Date | 2005/7/16 |
| Paper # | NLC2005-17 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.105 |
| Number (no) | 204 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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