SUMMARY : Session O22-GW Infrastructures, Methodologies and Standards

 

Title Work within the W3C Internationalization Activity and its Benefit for the Creation and Manipulation of Language Resources
Authors F. Sasaki
Abstract This paper introduces ongoing and current work within Internationalization (i18n) Activity, in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The focus is on aspects of the W3C i18n Activity which are of benefit for the creation and manipulation of multilingual language resources. In particular, the paper deals with ongoing work concerning encoding, visualization and processing of characters; current work on language and locale identification; and current work on internationalization of markup. The main usage scenario is the design of multilingual corpora. This includes issues of corpus creation and manipulation.
Keywords Language Resources, Standardization, Multilingual Corpora, Language identification, Markup, Localization, Internationalization
Full paper Work within the W3C Internationalization Activity and its Benefit for the Creation and Manipulation of Language Resources