https://github.com/gtoffoli/django-wip
FairVillage - Website Internationalisation Platform
https://github.com/gtoffoli/django-wip
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FairVillage - Website Internationalisation Platform
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/gtoffoli/django-wip
- Owner: gtoffoli
- Created: 2015-12-27T17:13:02.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-06-15T06:57:18.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-28T18:47:08.078Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: cat, django-application, django-wip, googletranslate, internationalisation, python, scrapy, translation, translation-proxy
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 1.57 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# django-wip
**FairVillage - Website Internationalisation Platform**
*FairVillage WIP* (WIP = Website Internationalisation Platform) is an Editorial Desk for the Internationalisation (i18n) of websites; it has been developed inside *FairVillage*, a sub-project of the *FI-Adopt* valorization project of the *FI-WARE* EU Programme.
WIP is an original application of the *Translation Proxy* concept: an approach to the translation of a web site that operates
from outside, by intercepting the request for a web page and serving to the user a page containing translated content. In the translation proxy approach, contents aren't translated at sight, as with GoogleTranslate; rather, fragments of the web page are replaced in real-time with translations that have been prepared offline and revised in context. Obviously, some caching can be applied to improve performance.
Since the background work involved in setting up a proxy site of high quality is critical, WIP aims to support it at a high extent. Learning mechanisms and knowledge reuse are exploited to make the translation and revision tasks more and more productive and to minimize the maintenance-related tasks.
On the server side, WIP integrates the Django web application framework and many Python libraries, such as:
[*NLTK*](https://github.com/nltk/nltk) and [*Scrapy*](https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy). On the client side, WIP builds on Javascript libraries, such as jQuery, and on the Chrome plugin technology.
WIP can interface web services providing linguistic resources; for example:
- Translation Memories (TM), like MyMemory, and
- Machine Translation (MT) services, like GoogleTranslate
Currently we are experimenting
- [*Lineardoc*](https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-services-cxserver/tree/master/lib/lineardoc), a library by MediaWiki for "translating HTML content using plain text supporting MT engine"; we have converted it from Javascript to Python 3
- [*eflomal*](https://github.com/robertostling/eflomal), an advanced algorithm by Robert Östling for word-level aligning of the source and the translated sentences; we are trying to extend it to exploit human supervision.
WIP includes a lot of algorithms and language resources that make it also an ideal tool for research and education in many language-related fields, such as text analysis, web mining, translation and language learning.
The production version of *FairVillage WIP* runs on Linux-Ubuntu, in a cloud architecture based on the [FI-Lab](https://www.fiware.org/lab/), but we are performing most of the development on Windows.