Labs/Ubiquity/Meetings/2009-02-23 i18n Meeting

Details

IRC channel: #ubiquity
Dial in:
- +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 201 (US Toll Free/Skype)
- +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 201 (US/International)
- +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 201 (Canada)

A quick overview of i18n resources > a list of research topics
- How to get involved
Discussion of recent topics in i18n
- Localization goals in Ubiquity
- Questions that need to be answered
What everyone's working on / will work on

Nice, but black hole - will never be completed to perfection
There are plenty of other things to solve to make it more usable to normal people
Makes localization even more difficult
Localization more important than natural language parser

Giving command authors the right tools
- eg, few know about synomyms
Prepositions - fixed list/standard list? would help with managing user expectations, and localization
Verbs suppying noun types only, not prepositions? have prepositions generated automatically, with different sentance structures
- But, need to have much more specific noun types (possibly with traits)
Need a language with an active community
- Will help figure out what problems need solved
- Japanese? (Jono/Mitcho) current parser is out of date
- Portuguese? (Fern)

Advertise the meeting better next time
- Bring in Ray Bango for developing active non-English community
Mitcho to blog about overload verbs, modifiers, etc
Jono to put overload verbs on top of his to-do list