[Madrid] Expression of interest

Hello,

 

My name is Yousef ELBES

Multilingual Manager, World Health Organization

 

I would like to attend the Multilingual Web workshop which will take
place in Madrid (26-27 Oct. 2010).

 

Most of the topics sound very interesting and relevant to my current
job. However, I am particularly interested in the following areas:

 

1.      Multilingual web sites in general.

2.      Content management and publishing tools.

3.      Language selection and navigation.

4.      Machine translation and Translation Memories.

5.      Semantic web.

6.      Importance of multilingual web.

7.      Standards.

 

Also, I am interested in speaking at the workshop about the way we are
doing our multilingual web business in WHO, and about our plans for the
future.

 

The first half of the proposed talk would explain why it is "important"
for WHO to have a multilingual web site, and would describe the
following processes that are currently in place to enrich our WHO
multilingual site and to keep it up to date:

 

1.      Selection of content to be translated - using our Content
Evaluation criteria.

2.      Translation.

3.      Managing our multilingual documents.

4.      Editing translations.

5.      Standardization tools:  multilingual style guide.

6.      Publishing.

7.      Overall workflow. 

 

The second half would describe our (gaps), which constitute our plans
and aspirations  for the future:

 

1.      Automation of content tagging and linkage in each language.

2.      Use of Machine Translation.

3.      Strict Content Evaluation system (what content to translate into
which language(s) and why).

4.      Integration of the site with WHO Institutional repository
(online library).

5.      Ideal, cost-effective workflow: content selection-translation
(MT)-editing-publishing.

 

 

Content of the proposed talk can be modified to fit within the final
agenda of the workshop.

 

Best regards.

 

 

Yousef

 

 

 

Yousef Elbes, PH.D.
Multilingual Manager
World Health Organization
1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
http://www.who.int <http://www.who.int/>