At the TAUS User Conference, a number of attendees pitched brief proposals for achieving greater power and efficiency in the translation chain through innovations involving sharing and pooling ideas and effort. Rustin Gibbs from Moravia Worldwide proposed that the industry as a whole collaborated on a new standards paradigm, going beyond the current dispensation of XLIFF and handoffs. The idea is to build a series of standard programming interfaces that would allow anyone to plug a technology into the work stream at any point to handle a specific need -- for example, a specialized natural language processing tool that could help you identify proper names in a text.

1. TAUS USER CONFERENCE 2010
LANGUAGE BUSINESS INNOVATION
4 – 6 OCTOBER / PORTLAND (OR), USA
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER
COLLABORATE TO INNOVATE: MORAVIA

2. TAUS Collaboration Pavilion
Open NLP via Web Services
Moravia Worldwide
Rustin Gibbs, Solutions Architect
David Filip, Director of Research
October 4, 2010

3. Localization Web Services
• Cloud-based computing has
enabled interesting
scenarios with open
platforms
• Many language technology
providers are developing
useful localization web
services
• As an industry, we should
adopt a single, standard
protocol or set of interfaces
for localization services to
allow the greatest
interoperability

4. Open NLP
• Open Natural Language Processing is an initiative to
build and organize a collection of localization web
services under the umbrella of one meta-system that
provides a comprehensive toolset for parsing,
analyzing, and manipulating language data.
• Data is normalized and transferred according to the
standard protocols and interfaces mentioned
previously
• Each component system is a language processing web
service (e.g. A web service that identifies and tags
proper names in sentences) that parses, marks, or
transforms language data.

5. Contact Information
Rustin Gibbs, Solutions Architect
Phone: +1 (206) 200-6107
E-mail: mailto:RustinG@moraviaworldwide.com
David Filip, Director of Research
Phone: +420731492244
E-mail: mailto:DavidF@moraviaworldwide.com
Moravia IT, Inc.
199 E Thousand Oaks Blvd, Ste 203, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Phone: +1 (805) 557-1700
Fax: +1 (805) 557-1702
WWW: http://www.moraviaworldwide.com