HM.applications-Translations

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

As a way to stimulate this topic area, I'm going to suggest that one 
specific particular application that HumanML needs to consider as 
essential, besides profiling. I am also going to suggest that we use 
real-world examples to demonstrate similar applications or ideas for 
applications.

Translations: We already have Language-Language, what we need is 
Culture/Language-Culture/Language.

Example: The IBM Commerical with a young girl 
(AmericanEnglish-speaking) answering her father's home-business 
phone, taking automatically translated information from a group of 
businessmen in a meeting in a Non-English-Speaking Country. This is 
an e-business Ad, and it accurately shows only factual information 
being translated--a shipment lost, replacement requested, discount 
requested.

How should cultural modules be structured to accomplish this for 
situations involving the kind of contextual information and 
cross-cultural translations we have posited?

As for Profiling, which has had its share of discussion, (but hasn't 
actually been added to this list yet). I will add it when I come 
across a similar example, if no one else formally starts an HM, 
applications thread for that, I will when I get around to it, 
although I am not likely to forget it--having used it as the basis 
for a UML Behavioral Model for HumanML.)

Ciao,
Rex
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