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WorldServer TransPort Desktop Workbench SDK

What's New in WorldServer 9?

Five major areas that differentiate WorldServer 9 from previous versions:

• Translation Quality and Review Features
• Project Management Enhancements
• TransPort, the new portal offering that replaces ServiceDesk
• Machine Translation Integration
• Terminology Lifecycle Management

Translation Quality and Review Features
WorldServer 9 introduces a wide range of features that give users greater control over managing the quality of their TM, and the linguistic review process.

Translation Review: Translators can view the complete change history for any segment and new translation status flags on each segment allow for an iterative review cycle. Customers can also configure WorldServer to enforce strict or lenient translate/review cycles that control what permissions a translator has and what permissions a reviewer has.

Quality Models: Used with the Translation Review functionality, this allows reviewers to flag segments as having errors and allows the reviewer to categorize the error in terms of the type and severity of the error.

Live TM support: This is a new approach to translation memory in WorldServer in which translators are encouraged to update the TM "early and often"; entries are added constantly during the translation process, and every TM entry has a status to indicate the "quality" of the entry. Also makes it possible to effectively update projects by restarting tasks without losing work.

New TM Penalties and ICE rules: New TM penalty configuration options allow users to more precisely define what is considered to be an ICE-match or 100% match and allow for better control over TM leverage rates.

Per-TM Penalties: Users can now configure WorldServer to apply penalties to TMs in a TM Group on an individual basis. This allows a customer to leverage from a "fallback" TM while preventing the possibility of ICE or 100% matches.

Reverse TM: TM reverse leverage operation will reverse the source and target designations of segments within a TM entry, thus allowing for translation support of the target language into the source language.

TM security: Customers can now configure read and write access to TMs on a per-TM/per-user (or group) basis.

Concordance Search: A keyword search tool that lets you search TM and machine translation (optional) for a word or phrase, returning all entries that contain any of the words.

Project Management Enhancements
Localization Project Managers have to keep track of many different projects in any number of languages with cascading due dates, constant change management, and plenty of financial paperwork overhead. Therefore, WorldServer has to give PMs the information they need as quickly as possible, assist in change management, and make it easier to report project information. Here 's another large group of features intended to make their lives easier.

Translation Progress Report: This is a new feature that was added for tracking the amount of translatable content and the percentage completion of translation work in projects and tasks. These metrics will be available and regularly updated for every task going through the system.

Project Updates: Users can schedule updates to tasks of currently ongoing projects without losing any translation work that has already been done and has not yet been committed to Translation Memory. This functionality will be performed automatically and transparently by WorldServer without requiring translators to commit their outstanding work to Translation Memory or kick off new projects on the same assets.

Upload-based project creation: A new option to create projects and submit files at the same time is added. This option is a one-page, simplified interface for easy project creation and it makes use of the new Client and Project Type objects.

Project Group Scope Automatic Actions: The workflow engine now supports "project group scope" automatic actions that will be run once across all of the projects under a single project group.

Workflow Phases: User-defined phases that provides task progress information at a higher level than the specific steps in the workflow. This allows business users with a high-level view of the project 's progress without exposing them to the internal details of the workflow. This also allows users to create a standard set of phases to be used across a wide variety of workflows for common progress reporting, independent of the underling implementation.

TransPort
WorldServer TransPort is the next-generation translation portal, replacing WorldServer Service Desk. Redesigned from the ground up, TransPort incorporates feedback from LSPs and customers to improve our portal offering.

Portal Interface: A web-based translation portal to their users to submit content for translation, request quotes, and create and monitor projects.

Project Types: Project Type is a set of properties including a default workflow which is applied to files uploaded to a pre-defined location. It greatly simplifies project creation.

Quote creation and management: Users can now create and manage their translation quotes in WorldServer

Machine Translation Integration
WorldServer now provides support for a tight integration between various machine translation systems and WorldServer. The results from the machine translation engine will seamlessly flow into the rest of WorldServer including scoping, costing, Browser Workbench, and Desktop Workbench.

SDK Framework: WorldServer 9.0 provides an integration framework between WorldServer and machine translation systems, and to expose out these services to WorldServer and WorldServer SDK-based applications.

Working MT Samples: WorldServer will also provide out-of-the-box sample integrations to leading machine translation systems like Language Weaver and SYSTRAN. Workflow AA Customers will be able to configure their WorldServer workflows to decide how they want to make use of the machine translation results.

Terminology Lifecycle Management
WorldServer now supports full workflow functionality to manage the complete term approval lifecycle. This is a huge leap in our TD offering. Now in addition to being a terminology container, WorldServer can manage the lifecycle of a term. Anyone that cares about terminology should be very impressed by this.

New Term Proposal: New terms can be added into the system (by humans or through automated processes) as "proposed" terms and can then flow through workflows that manage the approval process.

Additional status support: Terms in WorldServer can now have a much wider range of statuses including "Proposed", "Approved", and "Rejected" and sub-statuses like "Deprecated", "Superseded", and "Preferred". These new statuses allow users to express much more complex concepts than before.

Term Change Proposal: Users can submit proposed changes to existing terms in the system without affecting terms in use. For example, a user could propose deprecating the use of a particular term. These change proposals can then be sent through a workflow that controls the proposal approval process. Ultimately, the proposal can be accepted or rejected by a terminologist.

Delimited file term attribute import support: This is an enhancement on top of the existing "Delimited File: Simple Format" import functionality that allows users to map columns from the file to term attributes for particular languages.

Term stemming: Stemming algorithms can now be used for TDs. This allows WorldServer to find inflections/variants of a term when used in the translation process (such as the plural form of a singular term).

TD security support: Customers can now configure read and write access to TDs on a per-TD/per-user (or group) basis.