History: Babel Wiki Workshop '08: Cross-Language Collaboration

This workshop will be held in Porto, Portugal, in Sept 8th, 2008, during the Wikisym 2008 Symposium - http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008.

For more details about the nature of this workshop, see the call for participation.

Meeting notes

The workshop will be highly collaborative. The page below will be the start point for taking notes and organizing them during the workshop.

• BabelWiki'08 meeting notes

1.2. Papers

1.2.1. Fully-reviewed papers

The following papers were extensively peer-reviewed, and were accepted as part of the WikiSym'08 proceedings.

Huberdeau, Louis-Philippe, Sebastien Paquet & Alain Désilets

The Cross Lingual Wiki Engine: Enabling Collaboration Across Language Barriers.

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BabelWiki_08_Huberdeau_Louis-Philippe_Paquet_Sebastien_and_Desilets_Alain.pdf (804.00 Kb)

Kumaran, A.

Enabling Community Creation of Linguistic Data.
BabelWiki_08_Kumaran_A.pdf (1.47 Mb)

Bey, Youcef & Kyo Kageura

Translating the DEMGL Etymological Dictionary of Greek Mythology with the BEYTrans Wiki.
BabelWiki_08_Bey_Youcef_and_Kageura_Kyo .pdf (406.03 KB)

• Authors' affiliation
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    Youcef Bey, GETALP research group, LIG laboratory, Joseph Fourier University, France.
    Kyo Kageura, Library and Information Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.

1.2.2. BabelWiki peer-reviewed position papers

The following position paper were also peer reviewed, but more lightly than the above.

De Pedro, Xavier

Translating html the amateur way: double scrolling with highlighted markup
BabelWiki_08_DePedro_Xavier.pdf (329.88 Kb)

Désilets, Alain, Caroline Barrière & Jean Quirion

Translators and collaborative glossaries: what do they need from them?
BabelWiki_08_Desilets_Alain_Barriere_Caroline_Jean_Quirion.pdf (80.25 Kb)

Kinzler, Daniel

Building Language-Independent Concepts from Wikipedia.
BabelWiki_08_Kinzler_Daniel.pdf (114.12 Kb)

Kumaran, A.

Enabling Community Creation of Linguistic Data (Full paper, same as WS #2)
BabelWiki_08_Kumaran_A.pdf (1.47 Mb)

Liao, Han-Teng

How Wiki Can Exploit Linguistic Diversity
BabelWiki_08_Liao_Han-Teng.pdf (27.18 Kb)

Montagna, Dora

It's raining cats and dogs... Wiki in translation of idioms and proverbs: the importance of collaborative work
BabelWiki_08_Montagna_Dora.pdf (16.32 Kb)

Tosic, Milorad, & Olivera Tosic

Collaborative Wiki Tagging Platform for Multilingual Glossaries
BabelWiki_08_Tosic_Milorad_and_Tosic_Olivera.pdf (105.86 Kb)

1.2.3. Last minute contributions

The following papers were submitted at the last minute, and were not peer-reviewed.

You can, as registered user, add them to the related file gallery, and write down a link to it underneath.

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1.3. Location

Location: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. Room B104 - 27 seats
http://www.fe.up.pt/si/salas_geral.FormView?p_edificio=B&p_sala=104

1.4. Schedule

Workshop. 1st part




Workshop. 2nd part




Workshop. 3rd part





Workshop. 4th part