At the Nov 2008 TikiFest in Paris, Marc Laporte, Youcef Bey and Alain Désilets discussed what could be done in TikiWiki, to incorporate the kinds of basic Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools that professional translators can't survive without nowadays. The result was the roadmap below.

Who will use it, and what for?

Types of organisation

International NGOs with distributed offices/volunteers

Types of users

Use cases

What tools?

Make a list of the kinds of CAT tools we might want to support.

Architecture

Three possible approaches:

• Build a "poor-man's" version from scratch directly into TikiWiki.
• Integrate an existing Open Source software into TikiWiki (ex: OmegaT).
• Interface with existing web services.

Existing building-blocks

Standards

• XLIFF
• TBX
• TMX

Open Source software

• OmegaT
• PhpDictionary: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpdictionary/
• GlossWord: http://sourceforge.net/projects/glossword/
• bitext2tmx: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitext2tmx/
  • Java based aligner.
• Tracell
  • https://sourceforge.net/projects/tracell/
  • Tracell is a Web-based Computer Assisted Translation(WCAT) tool.
  • Project in planning stage.
• PHP implementation of Dijkstra's algorithm
  • http://en.giswiki.net/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm#PHP
  • Maybe useful if we need to implement automatic text alignment algorithm inside TikiWiki.
• etc...

Commercial Software

• TRADOS
• etc...

Free web services

• GDT
• etc...

Commercial web services

• TERMIUM
• etc..