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The process of localization is a lot like translation only a bit more technical. The process of localization is used when translating such material as websites, software applications and computer programs. Localization involves programmers, linguists, and marketing specialists working together to ensure that a product or service is translated accurately for a specific region or target audience. Once your product is localized, your marketing efforts in new markets should go much smoother and more effective generating a better ROI.

There is a reason why we are called Localization. It sums up what we do and what we love to do. We have the best team of programmers, linguists and marketing specialists working together to make sure your project is completed accurately to be most effective for its target region. The process of localization addresses such issues as preserving the original thought that may require altering the images, colors and layout of your original document. Example: "Raining Cats and Dogs" is an idiom that would just sound silly in other languages. Other expressions may even be offensive. Yellow flowers in Russia for instance, represent death. A failure to accurately express your idea in foreign culture can have dire effects, as you can see. That's why our specialists will perform more than just a simple translation ensuring that your message is effective in the market you are trying to penetrate.

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Localization, LLC Translation Services is a full service translation company providing comprehensive translation, localization and multimedia services in over 50 languages.

With offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Cleveland, Ohio, we at Localization, LLC Translation Services are much honored to provide language services to our clients in Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Washington D.C., San-Francisco, London, Moscow and Paris to name a few.

Our goal is to provide affordable translation services and stay committed to quality, customer service and detailed process. We strive to make ourselves available to our clients 24/7 making sure that they are well-informed of every step of the project progress from cost estimation to its completion.

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We offer translation and other language services in the following language combinations*

English <> Afrikaans • English <> Ainu • English <> Arabic • English <> Azeri

English <> Bosnian • English <> Bulgarian • English <> Burmese • English <> Buryat

English <> Cantonese • English <> Cham • English <> Chin languages • English <> Croatian

English <> Czech • English <> Danish • English <> Dutch • English <> Dzongkha

English <> English • English <> Estonian • English <> Farsi • English <> Finnish

English <> French • English <> Gan Hakka • English <> German • English <> Greek

English <> Hebrew • English <> Hungarian • English <> Indonesian • English <> Irish

English <> Italian • English <> Japanese • English <> Japonic • English <> Javanese

English <> Jingpho • English <> Karen • English <> Kazakh • English <> Khasi

English <> Khmer • English <> Korean • English <> Kuy • English <> Kyrgyz

English <> Lao • English <> Latvian • English <> Lithuanian • English <> Malay

English <> Maltese • English <> Mandarin • English <> Mandarin • English <> Mon

English <> Mongolian • English <> Mongolic • English <> Nicobarese • English <> Norwegian

English <> Nyaw • English <> Polish • English <> Portuguese • English <> Romanian

English <> Russian • English <> Serbian • English <> Slovak • English <> Slovene

English <> Somali • English <> Spanish • English <> Sundanese • English <> Tagalog

English <> Tamil • English <> Tatar • English <> Tetum • English <> Thai • English <> Turkic

English <> Turkish • English <> Turkmen • English <> Ukrainian • English <> Uyghur

English <> Uzbek • English <> Vietnamese

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Thailand jails US citizen for translating banned book on king

Source: Today Online

07:18 PM Dec 08, 2011

BANGKOK – A court in Thailand sentenced a US citizen to two and a half years in prison today for defaming the country’s royal family, by translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of the king and posting them online.
The verdict is the latest so-called lese majeste punishment handed down in the South-east Asian kingdom, which has come under increasing pressure at home and abroad to reform harsh legislation that critics say is an affront to freedom of expression.
The 55-year-old Thai-born American, Joe Mr Gordon, stood calmly with his ankles shackled in an orange prison uniform as the sentence was read out at a Bangkok criminal court.
Judge Tawan Rodcharoen said the punishment, initially set at five years, was reduced because Mr Gordon pleaded guilty in October. Defence lawyer Arnon Nampa said Mr Gordon would not appeal, but would apply for a royal pardon.
The sentence was relatively light compared to other recent cases. In November, 61-year-old Amphon Tangnoppakul was sentenced to 20 years in jail for sending four text messages deemed offensive to the crown.
Mr Gordon posted links the to banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the US state of Colorado, and his case has raised questions about the applicability of Thai law to acts committed by foreigners outside Thailand.
Speaking after the verdict, Mr Gordon said: “I am an American citizen, and what happened was in America.”
He also said he had no expectation of being let off easy. “This is just the system in Thailand,” he said. Speaking later in Thai, he added: “In Thailand, they put people in prison even if they don’t have proof.”
Mr Gordon had lived in the US for about 30 years. He was detained in late May during a visit to his native country to seek treatment for arthritis and high blood pressure. After being repeatedly denied bail, he pleaded guilty in October in hopes of obtaining a lenient sentence.
Mr Gordon, a former car salesman, is accused of having translated excerpts from the unauthorised biography “The King Never Smiles”, published by Yale University Press, into the Thai language and publishing them in a blog.
He also provided links to the translation to other two Web forums, prosecutors say.
In the banned book, American author Paul Handley retraces the king’s life, alleging that he has been a major stumbling block to the progress of democracy in Thailand as he consolidated royal power over his long reign.
King Bhumibol, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, is profoundly revered in Thailand and is widely seen as a stabilising force. He was feted on Monday on his 84th birthday, during which he called on his countrymen to unite in response to the worst floods in more than half a century.
The king is frail and has stayed at a Bangkok hospital for more than two years.

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Edwin Hubble in translation trouble

Amateur historians say famed astronomer may have censored a foreign rival.
Source: Nature
Eugenie Samuel Reich

Did Edwin Hubble conspire to remove a key variable from the English translation of a rival paper?SuperStock / Alamy

Amateur historians and astronomers are buzzing with intrigue over allegations that the legendary US astronomer Edwin Hubble, after whom NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is named, may have actively censored the work of a competitor to advance his own career.
Professional historians are demanding further evidence, but advocates of the position are already urging NASA to name a future space mission after the slighted researcher.
Hubble is credited with a discovery that paved the way for modern astronomy. In 1929, he published a paper¹ in which he reported on a correlation between the distance of galaxies from Earth and their velocities. Later dubbed Hubble’s law, the correlation shows that the further away a galaxy is, the more its light shifts towards the red end of the spectrum. This redshift implies that galaxies are moving away from the Earth, and later astronomers interpreted it as evidence that the Universe seems to be expanding.
But Hubble was not the first to notice this correlation. In 1927, the Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître published a paper in French, which gave a theoretical description of the same relationship². Lemaître also used data from others to derive the constant governing the expansion, known today has Hubble’s constant. “If you wanted to pick one person who probably deserves most credit for [discovering] the expanding Universe, it would be Lemaître,” says Robert Smith, a historian of science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Historians have long been aware of Lemaître’s work, but now claims have emerged that Hubble — or someone sympathetic to him — may have taken active steps to misrepresent Lemaître’s contribution to the English-speaking world.
On 6 June, Sidney van den Bergh, an astronomer at the National Research Council of Canada’s Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, uploaded a paper³ to the preprint server arXiv, noting that edits to a 1931 English translation⁴ of Lemaître’s paper seemed to selectively remove several chunks of text discussing the correlation that came to be known as Hubble’s law. The paper also removes from one equation Lemaître’s version of the Hubble constant. Van den Bergh’s paper was discussed on 15 June in a blog post on Forbes.com, sparking interest in the astronomical community.

Celestial censorship?

Van den Bergh tells Nature that he is convinced the editing was intentional, and was done by someone who was keen to prevent Lemaître’s calculations from undermining Hubble’s priority claim. “Picking out part of the middle of an equation must have been done on purpose,” he says.
Van den Bergh doesn’t speculate as to who made the change; the identity of the translator is unknown. But David Block, a mathematician at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and an amateur historian, claims in a paper⁵ uploaded to arXiv on 20 June that Hubble may have had a hand in what he calls the censorship of Lemaître’s translation.
Block points out that Hubble was very concerned that credit for the discovery of the expanding Universe should go to the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California, where he had made his observations. He thinks that it would have been entirely consistent with Hubble’s known practices for the astronomer to have contacted whoever translated the paper, to try to keep the correlation now known as Hubble’s law out of it. While Block is not alleging Hubble necessarily knew of Lemaître’s paper in advance, he notes that there were other cases in which Hubble apparently failed to cite his predecessors. Block says such evidence shows that Hubble was prepared to misrepresent the contributions of others.

Paper trail

Professional historians contacted by Nature were cautious, saying that the case for censorship by Hubble is unproven and that his apparent failures in citation — many of which have been known to professional historians for decades — are not necessarily out of line with the acknowledgement practices of the 1920s.
Smith notes that if Hubble actually caused the editing of Lemaître’s paper, there should be a trail. “People need to look for evidence of these kinds of claims,” he says. “It’s one thing to speculate, it’s another to prove something.”
David DeVorkin, a historian of astronomy at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, sounds a similar note. “To my knowledge, Hubble was following contemporary standards of citation — which tended to be pretty miserable, compared to the competitive standards of today,” he says.
Owen Gingerich, an astronomer and historian of science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is also unconvinced. “I think it is a bit sensationalist to call it censorship of Lemaître’s paper without examining the circumstances more carefully,” he says.
That hasn’t stopped word of the alleged misrepresentation from reaching NASA, which launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990.
Block has written to John Mather, a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics and a senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to suggest that he look into the possibility of a future ‘Lemaître Space Telescope’. Mather calls Block’s charges “hot stuff” and was curious enough to make inquiries to historians to find out more. But, he tells Nature, he thinks that the US space agency is unlikely to honour the Belgian pioneer any time soon. “Perhaps a European mission would have a better chance,” he says.

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Bonifacio’s Tagalog translation of ‘Mi Ultimo Adios’ now in Braille

By IBARRA C. MATEO

11/21/2011 | 02:57 PM
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The process of localization is a lot like translation only a bit more technical. The process of localization is used when translating such material as websites, software applications and computer programs. Localization involves programmers, linguists, and marketing specialists working together to ensure that a product or service is translated accurately for a specific region or target audience. Once your product is localized, your marketing efforts in new markets should go much smoother and more effective generating a better ROI.

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Translation is our bread and butter. It's what we do best. No job is too large or small. Localization, LLC Translation Services has capabilities to translate documents such as product manuals, labels, contracts, marketing materials, corporate policies, birth certificates or school transcripts. And we do it in over 50 languages. Quality, speed and accuracy are critical components in the translation project and we ensure that we execute them flawlessly. If you're like most of our clients, whatever your project, whatever your industry, things need to happen quickly and we are confident you will appreciate our timeliness, customized approach and quality.

Technical aspects of translation industry have changed drastically in the past 10 years. New software and applications allow translation projects to be completed faster and more accurately. Some things don't change though. And that is human touch. We utilize the latest technology to help our translation team and never vise-versa. So, next time your business needs a 100 page manual translated into Khmer, or you are interested in an article in French version of Newsweek, please, give us a call, Localization, LLC Translation Services will deliver.

We offer translation and other language services in the following language combinations*

English <> Afrikaans • English <> Ainu • English <> Arabic • English <> Azeri
English <> Bosnian • English <> Bulgarian • English <> Burmese • English <> Buryat
English <> Cantonese • English <> Cham • English <> Chin languages • English <> Croatian
English <> Czech • English <> Danish • English <> Dutch • English <> Dzongkha
English <> English • English <> Estonian • English <> Farsi • English <> Finnish
English <> French • English <> Gan Hakka • English <> German • English <> Greek
English <> Hebrew • English <> Hungarian • English <> Indonesian • English <> Irish
English <> Italian • English <> Japanese • English <> Japonic • English <> Javanese
English <> Jingpho • English <> Karen • English <> Kazakh • English <> Khasi
English <> Khmer • English <> Korean • English <> Kuy • English <> Kyrgyz
English <> Lao • English <> Latvian • English <> Lithuanian • English <> Malay
English <> Maltese • English <> Mandarin • English <> Mandarin • English <> Mon
English <> Mongolian • English <> Mongolic • English <> Nicobarese • English <> Norwegian
English <> Nyaw • English <> Polish • English <> Portuguese • English <> Romanian
English <> Russian • English <> Serbian • English <> Slovak • English <> Slovene
English <> Somali • English <> Spanish • English <> Sundanese • English <> Tagalog
English <> Tamil • English <> Tatar • English <> Tetum • English <> Thai • English <> Turkic
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Localization, LLC Translation Services is a full service translation company providing comprehensive translation, localization and multimedia services in over 50 languages. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C., we at Localization, LLC Translation Services are much honored to provide language services to our clients in Cleveland, Chicago, Washington D.C., San-Francisco, Boston, London, Moscow and Paris to name a few.
Our goal is to provide affordable translation services and stay committed to quality, customer service and detailed process. We strive to make ourselves available to our clients 24/7 making sure that they are well-informed of every step of the project progress from cost estimation to its completion.

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Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C., we at Localization, LLC Translation Services are much honored to provide language services to our clients in Cleveland, Chicago, Washington D.C., San-Francisco, Boston, London, Moscow and Paris to name a few.
Our goal is to provide affordable translation services and stay committed to quality, customer service and detailed process. We strive to make ourselves available to our clients 24/7 making sure that they are well-informed of every step of the project progress from cost estimation to its completion.

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Englishing the Iliad: Grading Four Rival Translations

Posted by Daniel Mendelsohn

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/11/englishing-the-iliad.html#ixzz1cYnEECrk

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It already speaks 57 languages as well as a 10-year-old. How good can it get?

By Jeremy Kingsley|Posted Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, at 7:04 AM ET

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/10/google_translate_will_google_s_computers_understand_languages_be.html

Localization, LLC Translation Services is a full service translation company providing comprehensive translation, localization and multimedia services in over 50 languages. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C., we at Localization, LLC Translation Services are much honored to provide language services to our clients in Cleveland, Chicago, Washington D.C., San-Francisco, Boston, London, Moscow and Paris to name a few.
Our goal is to provide affordable translation services and stay committed to quality, customer service and detailed process. We strive to make ourselves available to our clients 24/7 making sure that they are well-informed of every step of the project progress from cost estimation to its completion.

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4807 Rockside Rd Suite 400
Cleveland, OH 44131
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Localization, LLC Translation Services is a full service translation company providing comprehensive translation, localization and multimedia services in over 50 languages. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C., we at Localization, LLC Translation Services are much honored to provide language services to our clients in Cleveland, Chicago, Washington D.C., San-Francisco, Boston, London, Moscow and Paris to name a few.
Our goal is to provide affordable translation services and stay committed to quality, customer service and detailed process. We strive to make ourselves available to our clients 24/7 making sure that they are well-informed of every step of the project progress from cost estimation to its completion.

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Lost in Translation: Nokia Lumia, and The 5 Worst Name Oversights

By Dave Smith | October 26, 2011 7:40 PM EDT
Source: The International Business Times

Nokia unveiled its first-ever Windows Phones at the Nokia World conference in London Wednesday, the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. Unfortunately, Nokia learned too late that Lumia actually means “prostitute” in Spanish. Oops.

Coors invented a mascot called BeerWolf to market its beers during the Halloween season. That year, the company erected statues of its cartoon werewolf in bars and supermarkets, and at the time relied heavily on its slogan “Turn it Loose!” Management wasn’t happy when they learned the phrase in Spanish meant, “Suffer from Diarrhea.” Soon after, the company changed the slogan to “You bring out the beast in me.” Coors retired BeerWolf, but still uses werewolf imagery to this day, calling its beers “The Silver Bullet.”
Ford Pinto: In 1971, Ford introduced its two-door subcompact car, the Pinto. The name is derived from the pinto horse, which is a horse with a coat consisting of patches of white and any other color. Folks in Brazil didn’t see it that way, however, probably because “pinto” is Brazilian slang for “male genitals.”
Chevy Nova: In 1969, Chevy replaced the name of its Chevy II compact car with a new name, the Nova. Until March 2011, it was widely believed that the Chevy Nova didn’t sell well in South America because the name Nova literally means, “it doesn’t go.” Snopes has since debunked this rumor, stating that the Nova actually “sold well in both its primary Spanish-language markets, Mexico and Venezula.” On the contrary, Venezuelan sales actually surpassed GM’s expectations.
Clairol Mist Stick: In 2006, hair products company Clairol introduced a curling iron to the world called the “Mist Stick.” The Mist Stick didn’t sell too well in Germany, mainly because “mist” in German translates to “manure,” or “excrement.”
Sega: Tokyo-based game developer Sega is actually an abbreviation of the company’s original name. The company started developing games in 1940 under the name Standard Games, which was renamed to Service Games when it moved its headquarters from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Tokyo in 1951. When Service Games merged with Rosen Enterprises, the company decided to rename itself once again, taking the first two letters of Service Games to create “Sega.” Unfortunately, Sega in Italian is a widely-used slang term for male masturbation. Even today, the company still alters the pronunciation of its name to “see-ga” in all of its advertisements.
Besides Nokia, these other companies didn’t have Google search at the time to cross-reference their names with possible meanings or translations. Nokia, however, has no excuse.
Nokia’s will reportedly sell its “prostitute” 800 model for about $584, and the “prostitute” 710 model for roughly $376. Both phones will be available in the U.S. in “early 2012.”

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Modern Algorithms Crack 18th Century Secret Code

• By Wired UK

By Mark Brown, Wired UK
Computer scientists from Sweden and the United States have applied modern-day, statistical translation techniques — the sort of which that are used in Google Translate — to decode a 250-year old secret message.

The original document, nicknamed the Copiale Cipher, was written in the late 18th century and found in the East Berlin Academy after the Cold War. It’s since been kept in a private collection, and the 105-page, slightly yellowed tome has withheld its secrets ever since.
But this year, University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering computer scientist Kevin Knight — an expert in translation, not so much in cryptography — and colleagues Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer of Uppsala University in Sweden, tracked down the document, transcribed a machine-readable version and set to work cracking the centuries-old code.

The book’s pages — bound in gold and green brocade paper — contained about 75,000 characters in very neat handwriting. Outside of two words — an owner’s mark (“Philipp 1866″) and a note in the end of the last page (“Copiales 3″) — the rest was encoded.
Some of the letters were obviously Roman and others were plainly Greek, while the rest were abstract symbols and doodles.
At first, Knight and his team isolated the Roman and Greek characters, figuring that they might be the real message, and attacked it with a home-made translation project. 80 different languages, and many hours later, and nothing happened. “It took quite a long time and resulted in complete failure,” said Knight in a press release.
The team realised that the known characters were just there to mislead. So they booted them out and looked at the symbols. They theorised that abstract symbols with similar shapes might represent the same letter, or groups of letters. They tested this with different languages and when German was used, some meaningful words emerged — “Ceremonies of Initiation”, followed by “Secret Section”.
A little computation later and a good chunk of the book had been decoded and transcribed. The document revealed the rituals and political leanings of a German secret society, and one that had a strange obsession with eyeballs, plucking eyebrows, eye surgery and ophthalmology. You can read the entire, weird, manifesto in English here.
Buoyant from his success, Knight is now planning on using his techniques and programs to tackle other codes including ones from the Zodiac Killer, a Northern Californian serial murderer from the 60s; “Kryptos,” an encrypted message carved into a granite sculpture on the grounds of CIA headquarters; and the Voynich Manuscript, a medieval document that has baffled professional cryptographers for decades.
Source: Wired UK
Image: Copiale cipher. (University of Southern California and Uppsala University)

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How translation software helped crack ‘unbreakable’ code in 1866 secret society manuscript

By Rob Waugh
Source: Daily Mail, UK
Last updated at 3:19 PM on 25th October 2011

• Code reveals ‘secret teachings’ of mysterious society
• Technique should ‘bring hope’ to researchers struggling with codes such as Zodiac killer cipher

The Copiale Cipher was found in an archive in Berlin – and has never been decoded. The team who cracked it using translation software think their techniques could be used on other ‘unbreakable’ ciphers

The Copiale cipher is an 105-page coded document found in an East German archive, and dated to 1866 – but the code used to shield its mysteries has remained unbroken, until now.
The international team that cracked the cipher this year found that automated translation techniques – familiar to most of us from the often-wonky Google Translate – can help to crack encrypted documents by ‘guessing’ their contents.
It works even when they use a cipher as baffling as the Copiale’s 90 symbols, and the original language is unknown.
The team, led by computer scientist Kevin Knight of USC, aims to use their technique on other encrypted texts.
Their work also unearthed a fascinating document that may shed light on the secret societies of the nineteenth century. The Copiale Cipher proved to be about induction into a secret society – speaking of ‘secret teachings for apprentices’ and a bizarre initiation rite for disciples.
The team has only translated 16 pages so far.
It has been hailed by cryptography fans as a significant achievement.

The researchers revealed that the document was a manual for initiation into a mysterious German secret society

British code site Cipher Mysteries said, ‘Here’s a nice story that should bring heart to researchers struggling with uncracked homophonic ciphers such as the Zodiac killer ciphers.
‘Kevin Knight, who Voynich Manuscript researchers may remember from various posts here, has now co-authored a paper on how they cracked a hitherto unknown 105-page ciphertext.’
The text is a mix of letters and obscure symbols in both upper and lower case – the only ‘clues’ being two unenciphered words, ‘Phillipp 1866′ and Copiales 3′. It was discovered in an the archive of the East Berlin Academy, and has baffled researchers ever since.
Not only were researchers unable to crack the code, the weird mix of symbols and letters meant they did not know what language the original had been written in.

The researchers used translation software to look ‘within’ the text for potential words in 40 languages – and found a meaning, despite a complex cipher involving double-coded letters and even coded spaces

This year, Knight’s team of computer scientists finally unravelled the message – using machine translation, and a great deal of patience.
‘It remains to transcribe the rest of the manuscript,’ said the paper, ‘The document may contain further encoded information – and, given the amount of work it represents, we believe there may be other documents using the same or similar schemes.’
The team transcribed 16 pages of the 105-page manuscript, breaking down the letters into 90 symbols.
The team then scanned for the frequency each symbol was used, to try and work out what alphabet was being used, or even if some symbols were ‘dummy’ symbols.
The teams first two ‘attacks’ on the cipher – using a computer to ‘brute force’ a translation using the ideas that some letters might be dummies, or that several letters might be used for one sound – both failed.
The researchers found fragmented results from German – better than their results for any other language – and used an automatic translation programme to crack the code further.
Some of the symbols were used as spaces – mostly the roman letters. The ‘gibberish’ symbols carried most of the information in the cipher, the researchers found.
By discounting ‘space’ letters and re-translating, the researchers were able to find a translation, describing an initiation rite into a secret society.
Even within the decoded text, there are still ‘coded’ symbols – referring to members of the society, such as a leader and the new ‘candidate’ for apprenticeship.
The document describes an initiation ritual involving plucking eyebrows – and a ‘master of ceremonies’ inducting a ‘candidate’.

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Twitter and Facebook guidelines: Tweet in both official languages, report tells N.B. civil servants

Source: National Post
Postmedia News  Oct 21, 2011 – 8:47 AM ET | Last Updated: Oct 21, 2011 10:47 AM ET
By Shawn Berry
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s official languages commissioner says the provincial government needs to establish clear guidelines to help civil servants and even members of legislature figure out when bilingual messages are warranted on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
In an annual report released Thursday, Michel Carrier says he has recommended to Premier David Alward that public agencies be given direction on their requirements under the Official Languages Act when using social media.
The act requires government to offer services in both English and French, but it was drafted in 2002, before the age of social media sites.
Still, Mr. Carrier says the requirement for government departments and employees to issue advisories in both official languages is clear.
“Whatever you communicate as a representative of the government must be done in both official languages if you’re going to distribute it to the general public and in equal quality.”
The same is true for government ministers, he said.
But Mr. Carrier said there’s still a considerable grey area that needs to be mapped out.
He says there’s a fine line for members of legislature to walk, noting that at times their online messages could be construed as government announcements.
“There are two aspects to communications: When you’re replying to someone, you reply in the language of their choice. When you’re communicating on behalf of the government, you have to do it in both official languages,” Mr. Carrier said.
“For blogs and Twitter accounts, the same policy applies,” he said.
Mr. Carrier said his office received a handful of requests for information on how to use social media properly under the act.
The requests included questions about the proper use of personal Twitter accounts by government employees, the use of bilingual public forums and unilingual forums and the use of third parties in the management or moderation of government public forums.
“If you write to your MLA in English, he or she replies to you in English. You choose the language.”
But he said the law doesn’t necessarily apply to everything a legislature member may write.
“It doesn’t mean everything they write on Twitter has to be bilingual. But if you’re making a general announcement that there’s going to be a flood all along the St. John River, you need to do it in both languages and tell everyone.”
Mr. Carrier noted that Premier Alward has two official Twitter accounts — one English, one French.
Mr. Carrier’s comments left at least one member of the legislature who makes a habit of using social media wondering where things stand.
Jack Carr said he plans to touch base with the commissioner to find out more about the matter but has no plans to stop using social media.
“I’m very active in social media to reach my constituents. That’s my role as an MLA, to reach out to constituents.”
Mr. Carr, who noted that the fastest growing population segment in his riding is francophone, said he is working to improve his command of the French language.
“I am anglophone, I am not bilingual, I am striving. . . . I’m continuously trying to reach out, trying to include members of the francophone community.”
Mr. Carrier is also welcoming the province’s move to reopen the debate on early French immersion.
“I like it. I think that it’s a positive step,” Mr. Carrier said Thursday as he released his report for 2010-2011.
The province has announced that it has established a panel to review the French immersion policy. In 2008, the Liberal government caused a furor when it sought to eliminate French immersion starting in Grade 1. A compromise saw the program start in Grade 3.
Mr. Carrier noted that at the time, his office said the immersion program didn’t need to be changed.
He said he continues to maintain that there needs to be more access outside the classroom.
“My experience in exchanging with immersion students is that they are very well trained, however, they don’t always have the opportunity to continue using it.”
The commissioner’s office received 200 complaints last year. Of the 133 complaints ruled to be founded, 23 of the complaints were withdrawn.
The report comes as a legislative committee prepares to review the province’s official languages legislation before year’s end. The commissioner has made 13 recommendations for improving the act.

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The Wikipedia of news translation: Yeeyan.org’s volunteer community

By Jonathan Stray

Source: The Nieman Journalism Lab

BEIJING — Yeeyan.org has 150,000 registered users, who collectively translate 50 to 100 news articles every day from English to Chinese. Since its inception in 2006, the site has grown into a key gateway for Chinese speakers who want to follow international news. It has been so successful that it has attracted the attention of major news sources like The Guardian and ReadWriteWeb — and also the Chinese government, which abruptly shut Yeeyan down last year for several months.
But this is not a story about China. I believe that Yeeyan is pioneering cost-effective solutions to a major global problem: the ghettoization of information by language. This is a change with potentially far-reaching implications for journalism. I met Kitty Wang, the vice general manager, and Walter Wang, Yeeyan’s community manager (no relation), in a Beijing cafe and asked them to explain to me how Yeeyan works, from technological, social, and business perspectives.
The name Yeeyan derives from the Chinese characters 译 (yi) and 言 (yan), which together mean something like “translate the information,” and Kitty and Walter told me that the site’s primary aim is to increase the flow of information between cultures. Yeeyan.org looks like a news site, with headlining photos and editor-selected hot stories on the front page. (English readers can check out the Google translation.) Stories are arranged into typical sections such as business, sports, technology, and life. The difference is that all of the Chinese-language material on the site has been translated from English sources by members of the Yeeyan community, almost always for free.
The success of the site in producing a continual stream of translations — over 60,000 so far — is the result of careful community management and well-designed social features. And it’s a model that seems like it could be replicated for other languages.

Putting the community to work

Aside from reading stories, users can perform two basic actions: recommend a story or a URL for translation, or translate a recommended story. All visitors to the site are readers, many are recommenders, and only a few thousand — a couple percent — actually create translations. That turns out to be enough, but Yeeyan’s existence depends on getting people to translate.
The site’s design encourages participation in a number of different ways. The front page prominently displays a staff-curated selection of recommended but as-yet-untranslated articles. Users can create “projects,” collections of articles around a specific topic, such as “foreign affairs,” “film lovers,” or “Toyota recall,” and active topics are featured on the front page. Each user has a profile which shows a history of their recommendations and completed translations, and a number of typical social networking features are supported, such as comments on articles and messages between users.
Yeeyan has also recently adopted a badge system, to encourage both participation and quality. There are automatically awarded badges for things like “most translations this week” and “most comments this week,” as well as a series of overall “levels” that users can attain by translating and commenting. Kitty says participation has shot up since the introduction of these incentives.
“Amazing ah?” says Kitty. “Even this little thing can intrigue passion.” As Napoleon once said, a soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
But clever software can never replace the involvement of human community managers. Yeeyan’s staff must read each translation before it is posted to ensure that it does not violate government taboos on reporting. (Since reopening in January, Yeeyan has dropped its “current events” category and now avoids all overtly political news, including stories from erstwhile partner The Guardian.) All websites in China are required to self-censor in this manner, but Yeeyan also takes this opportunity to interact with its translators.
“We are the first readers, so we comment first, we encourage users first, we proofread first,” says Kitty. “Those are all important to build up [the] community phenomenon.”

Participation over quality

Kitty told me that there had been much early discussion over whether the site should publish only “good” translations, but in the end they decided that “the gate should be opened to everyone.” Part of their strategy is to encourage readers to become translators. Beginning translators tend to produce rough texts and make many mistakes, says Kitty, but “it is cruel if we don’t even provide a chance.” The policy occasionally drives good translators away from the site, but the Yeeyan team sees translator training as an important part of their social mission.
Nonetheless, Yeeyan has recently debuted a proofreading feature. The original text and a user translation are displayed side by side, and the proofreader can comment on each paragraph. Participation is encouraged by awarding badges for proofreading.

Copyright and the business

Under international law, permission from the copyright holder is generally required to create or publish a translation. By publishing user-supplied translations of arbitrary news material, Yeeyan creates a public good in a legally dubious fashion. But it’s worth remembering that many of the vital information services we now take for granted began on similarly vague principles. The web search engine could not exist without wholesale duplication of the entire web onto local servers, a move which was by no means obviously legal when the first commercial search engines appeared — and which some news organizations still aren’t sure about. The legality of Google scanning books is similarly being challenged.
Even so, Yeeyan is actively seeking agreements with copyright holders to create and publish translations of their work. “We do not want to use content for business illegally, but how to get authorization is a big problem,” Kitty said. “That’s why we are trying to talk to [copyright holders] to have win-win-win business model.”
The three parties in “win-win-win” are the content producer, Yeeyan, and the translator. Yeeyan has just such an agreement with ReadWriteWeb. All RWW articles are translated by a paid freelancer and posted on rwwchina.com, with the ad revenue split between Yeeyan and RWW.
Yeeyan is reluctant to put too much advertising on the main site, both because of the legal questions raised by commercial use of translations and for fear of alienating its all-volunteer community. But there’s money to be made offline if you have access to a huge pool of translation talent, and connections to publishers on both sides of the language divide. Yeeyan hopes to make its money out of brokering translations for foreign firms eager to enter the Chinese market, both online and offline. The company already handles the Chinese language versions of Men’s Health and several other magazines and has brokered more than 20 book deals. Translators are drawn from the best of Yeeyan’s volunteer talent pool. As an incentive to reach professional proficiency, translators who have earned the “Level 4″ badge can apply to be Yeeyan partners. If approved, these skilled translators get the “Partner” badge, plus 3 RMB for every 1,000 views of their translated articles — and possibly a translation job offer later.

Journalism in an era of cheap translation

Yeeyan’s success raises broader questions for journalists and journalism. First, could the model be replicated? Could, say, the Associated Press cultivate a community that actively translated their reporting into other languages? I don’t see why not, though any organization that tried this would need a deep understanding of “community” and everything that implies — and deliver such an obvious public good that thousands of people would be willing to volunteer their time. The business model might also be different, but I can think of a number of ways to monetize a pool of translators and an audience eager for foreign-language news.
But suppose that a news organization was able to deliver a substantial amount of content to foreign-language audiences for very little cost, through communities like Yeeyan, or machine translation, or a combination of the two as in the hybrid World Wide Lexicon project. Such translations would not be up to professional quality initially — if ever — and publishers may be hesitant to endorse error-prone representations of their work. But asking about absolute accuracy and brand dilution misses the point — it’s like critiquing Wikipedia for its (improving) accuracy without discussing the net benefit to humanity. How would cheap translation change foreign reporting, and the very concept of international news? It’s a question which will soon be forced upon the profession by rising technological tides.
For the curious, and because I have repeatedly advocated that reporters make available their full source material, here’s a transcript of my followup IM chats with Kitty. In it we discuss further details of the site’s origin and operations, and their experience with the Chinese censors.