Interactive alignment of Parallel Texts a cross browser experience. (standards in practice)

Transcription

1 Interactive alignment of Parallel Texts a cross browser experience (standards in practice) Gavin Brelstaff (gjb@ crs4.it) CRS Pula (CA) Sardinia, Italy Francesca Chessa University of Sassari, Italy Multilingual Web Workshop Pisa April 2011 MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 1

2 Introduction Alignment of parallel texts; multi-lingual; minority languages; poetry But why? Dante s was a minority language. MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 2

3 Think global, act local Think local, act global Genius loci the creative spirits of place geolocated. Minority language a seed-bed for poetic expression, beyond mere communication. He was the cat that walked by himself and all places were alike to him. Kipling Whenever we lose a language the genetic basis for such expression diminishes, globally MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 3

4 Echo Chamber Minority language Island language (song,verse,prose) MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 4

5 Echo Chamber in poet s head MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 5

6 Echo Chamber inside the head (ear,tongue,thought) MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 6

7 Echo Chamber inside the head (ear,tongue,thought, eye) Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 7

8 Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita Language Barrier MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 8

9 Cultural context A Cultural context B cf R.Jakobson diffusion diffusion diffusion diffusion Language Barrier MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 9

10 Minority language Global language cellular membrane diffusion diffusion osmosis diffusion diffusion diffusion Assist avoiding dilution, shrivelling, bursting. Language Barrier MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 10

11 Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita Language Barrier MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 11

12 Translator Nel mezzo del Midway cammin this way di nostra of vita life, mi we re ritrovai per bound una upon selva I oscura woke ché up la and diritta via found myself era smarrita in a dark wood. Parallel text alignment to communicate semantics standards-based markup web delivery, cross-browser non-verbal interactvity beyond GoogleTranslate Midway this way Nel Nel mezzo del of life, we re cammin di nostra MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa bound upon I vita mi ritrovai 12 per woke up and una selva oscura found myself in a ché la diritta via dark wood. era smarrita

13 Beyond GoogleTranslate: SMT not going to translate poetry well any time soon. We allow the translator to clarify by alignment Point-&-click interface to modify standard markup Colour-code: formal & dynamic equivalence [Nida-Taber] Demo Parallel text alignment web interface MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 13

14 Demo (a desktop browser: IE8-9,FF3-4,Opera11,Chrome,Safari) MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 14

15 Demo: selection by click MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 15

16 Demo: selection & alignment MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 16

17 Standards in practice http put exist XML db XQL REST/ajax XMLSchema Presentation Content Structure Semantics CSS XML TEI-p5 not RDF XHTML Unicode not w3crange I n t e r a c t jquery XSL Javascript DOM Pros & Cons MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 17

18 http put exist XML db XQL REST/ajax XMLSchema Presentation Content Structure Semantics CSS XML TEI-p5 not RDF XHTML Unicode not w3crange I n t e r a c t XSL jquery Javascript DOM Cons: #1 We can t interact directly with Semantics Browsers only bind events to XHTML (why not XML?) elements Incurs two degrees of messy indirection. MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 18

19 http put exist XML db XQL REST/ajax XMLSchema Presentation Content Structure Semantics CSS XML TEI-p5 not RDF XHTML Unicode not w3crange I n t e r a c t XSL jquery Javascript DOM Cons: #2 w3crange is not road worthy. We resort to Click to Select Selection within words still lacking. MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 19

20 http put exist XML db XQL REST/ajax XMLSchema Presentation Content Structure Semantics CSS XML TEI-p5 not RDF XHTML Unicode not w3crange I n t e r a c t jquery XSL Cons: #3 TEI-p5 must be subsetted to avoid overlapping markup Javascript DOM We prioritise alignment tags over {verse-line,paragraph} hierarchy. MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 20

21 http put exist XML db XQL REST/ajax XMLSchema Presentation Content Structure Semantics CSS XML TEI-p5 not RDF XHTML Unicode not w3crange I n t e r a c t jquery XSL Pros: #1 Unicode in XML attributes permits our novel alignment scheme: Javascript DOM The verbatim source text is simply assigned as an attributed of an enclosing tag in the translated text MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 21

22 http put exist XML db XQL REST/ajax XMLSchema Presentation Content Structure Semantics CSS XML TEI-p5 not RDF XHTML Unicode not w3crange I n t e r a c t XSL jquery Javascript DOM Pros: #2 CSS selection mechanism as embraced in jquery helps tame the complexity of cross-browser DOM programming. MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 22

23 http put exist XML db XQL REST/ajax XMLSchema Presentation Content Structure Semantics CSS XML TEI-p5 not RDF XHTML Unicode not w3crange I n t e r a c t XSL jquery Javascript DOM Pros: #3 RESTful archiving is a reality due to: Ajax in the browser Http PUT on the wire, & exist XML db on the server MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 23

24 Standards in practice Conclusion Cons Pros Can t bind to XML Unicode in attributes W3cRange not ready CSS&jQuery v. DOM Must subset TEI-p5 RESTful reality MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 24

25 Browser issues Opera: no transparent cursor in text Firefox: synchronous scoll down bug IE: onselectstart issue Google Chrome: run from disk fix Safari/Chrome/IE Form Enctype: validation MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 25

26 That s all folks: Gavin Brelstaff (gjb@ crs4.it) CRS Pula (CA) Sardinia, Italy Francesca Chessa University of Sassari, Italy MLW Pisa 2011 G.Brelstaff & F.Chessa 26 L'Amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle