SUMO - Suggested Upper Merged Ontology - one of the largest and most comprehensive, free, formal ontologies. This OntologyPortal site is dedicated to distributing open source formal ontologies and tools, and supporting the developers and users of those products.
 

A Flexible Open Source Framework for Speech Recognition - "Sphinx-4 is a flexible, modular and pluggable framework to help foster new innovations in the core research of hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition systems. The design of Sphinx-4 is based on patterns that have emerged from the design of past systems as well as new requirements based on areas that researchers currently want to explore. To exercise this framework, and to provide researchers with a "research-ready" system, Sphinx-4 also includes several implementations of both simple and state-of-the-art techniques. The framework and the implementations are all freely available via open source."

• Cultural Sensitivity in Technology
• Interesting globalization facts and figures - The majority of Internet users speak one of 10 languages
• Interesting and informative links to a variety of global topics
• Translation, a critical component of globalization - Translation should be considered indispensable to the core business of a global company. Localized software is no longer a luxury but an absolute necessity and a winning differentiator, especially in highly competitive situations. Translation is one of the critical components of the overall user experience.
• The Globalization Landscape: Customer Inhibitors, Opportunities and Outlook - how to help your users and customers optimize their globalization.
   

• IBM WebSphere Voice Server

• Translation, a critical component of globalization Part III - How to keep translation costs low while retaining high quality
• Coded character sets - an overview - An understanding of of coded character sets is essential when developing multilingual software
• ICU - Introduction to the International Components for Unicode
   
• Using Unicode to display text in multiple languages - Unicode is the fundamental building block for language encoding
• Introduction to culture, diversity and multiculturalism - How does it affect our global e-business and the way your employees and managers behave daily?
• Globalization Architecture Imperatives - Design and implement applications that best support global requirements.
   
• Character Data Representation Architecture (CDRA) Reference - a revised, on-line version of the IBM publication, CDRA Reference and Registry - SC09-2190-00 (Dec 1995)
• ICU4J Release 3.4.2: the International Component for Unicode (ICU) is a mature, portable set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization (I18N) and globalization (G11N)
• Globalization guideline E: Input and Output Interfaces - this checklist of guidelines will help programmers design software solutions that will work in all countries, languages, and cultures. .. Reviews design considerations that make it easier to implement NLS at the input and output (I/O) interfaces. The primary physical I/O interface to computers consists of the keyboard, display, and printer. Enabling the software alone does not result in a usable product if its physical interface is not enabled as well.
   
• Introduction to Locales - Properly globalized applications require more than just language translation
• Locales: An introduction to currency — Creating successful software for worldwide use requires attention to locale details ranging from date and time to numeric formatting
• Locales - an introduction to Date and Time formats - Like number, currency and calendar formats, date and time formats are not constant throughout the world. Furthermore, some countries have laws that govern the format of date and time recording for government or legal documents.
  
  
• Globalization locale database - provides software developers with many of the cultural and locale details required to globalize their applications
• An introduction to keyboards - A basic understanding of keyboards will help developers avoid problems and improve testing.
• Global keyboard layouts - keyboard layouts for countries and regions around the world.
   
• Writing for international audiences - Ensure that your information and message is clear for all types of audiences
• Terminology management - Managing terminology can help you develop global applications
   
• Culture Clashes - Test your knowledge of cultural norms in other countries - These scenarios highlight common situations where another culture's norms or attitudes may clash with yours.
   
• Introduction to bidirectional languages - How to handle languages that display text both right to left and left to right
• The challenges of East Asian languages for software developers and architects - large sets of characters used by East Asian languages present challenges for software developers
• Chinese standard GB18030 - This is the new standard for supporting Chinese characters
• An introduction to the Thai language - Thai belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is a tonal, uninflected and predominantly monosyllabic language that has been influenced by both Pali and Sanskrit
• Introduction to Indic languages - Indic languages provide challenges to developers because of their complexity
   
• Developing multilingual Web sites with Lotus Domino Global WorkBench 6, Domino 6, and Notes 6
• Machine translation - Fast but potentially error-prone text translations
   
• Retrofit Globalization onto a Web Application
• Developing global Web applications - "English is becoming just another dialect of the internet language -- you have to support all languages to reach the growing number of visitors from different parts of the world."
• Applying Globalization Architecture Imperatives to your business - "... some fundamental principles for all development groups to follow, so that different applications handle different languages consistently, can inter-operate, are translatable, and function well in an on-demand environment. They will help companies move effectively and efficiently towards e-business across the globe."
   
• Web services — Web services can streamline the path to software localization
• IBM e-business Globalization Solution Design Guide - Getting Started - "With the worldwide growth of e-business, globalization is not only an add-on value but a must for global e-business applications. In fact, globalization has become an architecture in the realm of e-business."
   
• Multilingual Information Management (MIM) solutions enable you to deploy the appropriate mix of machine translation, localization (l10n), internationalization (i18n), and Professionally Edited Gist (PEG) within your business processes.
• JIT localization — Just-in-Time localization makes application data easier to transfer, manage and manipulate, and more accurately reflect user preferences.
   
• Fonts and multilingual text - Successful globalized applications can process text in any language, and accommodate multiple languages and complex text.
• Implementation of Machine Translation Service for Sametime
• Mock Translation Input Method Editor - provides programmers and testers with an easy way to enter pseudo-translated multilingual test data into a Java application.
   
• Developing J2EE Global Applications - “Write Once, Run Anywhere”, and in any language!
• Introduction to Mozilla globalization features
• Internationalization with JavaScript
   
• Globalizing your e-business RSS feeds - using RSS files, a data feed can be created that supplies globalized headlines, links, and article summaries from your Web site.
• Streaming Media development and globalization
   
• Writing English for the English-speaking markets - Since the English-speaking countries remain the world’s largest economic bloc, having products work well in the English-speaking markets is very important to many companies in the developing countries.
  • English language writing issues - irregularities, language variations, ideomatic expressions, terminology, punctuation, political correctness, branding issues
  • References to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao - avoid culturally-sensitive issues.
  • Guide to designing international icons - make icons and graphic labels translatable; avoid text-based graphics; avoid single-letter icons; localize punctuation and commercial symbols; avoid puns; avoid hand and arm gestures; take care in selecting animal icons; colors are local; using body parts as metaphors; facial expressions are crude; sexual images can be effective or deadly; symbols may be suitable only for local usage; respect reading direction; avoid excessive detail; avoid racial, gender and religious stereotyping; use political symbols appropriately; do not display national flags or maps, especially those depicting national borders; use appropriate monetary symbols; avoid trivializing violence; take care with mathematical and currency symbols ...
• American and British English differences - this Wikipedia article outlines the differences between American English, the form of the English language spoken in the United States, and Commonwealth English (often called British English).
• Tandem Writing - Add your contribution to an ever-growing story!
   
• IBM Globalization webcasts on demand ...
  • Optimize your Localized Web site for Search Engines - the most important elements of the various search engine algorithms, and what is necessary to rank well in foreign language search engines.
  • How terminology affects a solution's chances in the global market - the proactive management of terminology should be a key component of any plan for developing and marketing products and software solutions in multiple markets.
  • Why developers choose Java for international applications - the concept of the locale and how it relates to Java and resource bundles.
  • An introduction to the International Components for Unicode - learn how a freely available open standards based Unicode solutions like IBM's ICU helps preserve diverse cultures and languages.
  • Developing Globalization Architecture Imperatives to support a global business - globalization for an on demand world integrates people, cultures, business processes and technologies - on your terms.
  • Machine Translation in an On Demand world -Machine Translation is not intended to replace professional translation, but the vast volume of data in an On Demand operating environment makes professional translation of all information very difficult.
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• News from the translation industry
• Career guide for linguists
• Articles such as Language Light! and Dictionaries and their Eccentricities
• Twilight of the Celts