INFORMATICA International Journal Main Page Editorial Board Abstracting/Indexing Instructions to Authors Subscription Information Contents Author Index Papers in Production		INFORMATICA, 2010, Vol. 21, No. 3, 321-338 © Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, ISSN 0868-4952 An Approach to Formalize Metainformation of Software Localizable Resources Valentina DAGIENE, Tatjana JEVSIKOVA Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Akademijos 4, LT-08663 Vilnius, Lithuania E-mail: dagiene@ktl.mii.lt, tatjanaj@ktl.mii.lt Abstract Software localization is one of important tasks to insure a successful computer user experience. The paper discusses how localization of the software dialog text can be accelerated and how to raise the quality of software product localization. We also discuss the main features and common structure of localizable software resources, their formats and preparation for localization. As a result, we suggest applying a modified formalism of attribute grammars to describe localizable resources, taking the graphical user interface as a basic grammar structure, localizable strings and their parts as terminal symbols, and using the attributes to add important metainformation and context to the resources. The main principles of creation of such attribute grammars are presented. Keywords: software localization, software internationalization, localizable resources, metainformation of localizable resources, user interface adaptation, attribute grammars To preview Lithuanian abstract see full article text To preview full article text in PDF format click here You could obtain free Acrobat Reader from Adobe
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