Labs/Ubiquity/i18n

Participation

• ubiquity-i18n Google Group/mailing list - for the discussion of internationalization and localization issues
• #ubiquity irc.mozilla.org - Live internet relay chat discussion.
• Questions to ask - a starting point for those who want to contribute data in their language for analysis
• Research topics - future research and blog topics in the Ubiquity + i18n realm. Feel free to blog on or discuss these and other topics!
• Issue Tracker - Used to report/discuss bugs and submit patches for Ubiquity.

Meetings

• Meeting notes & times

Resources

Proposals

• Towards a "natural syntax"
• Overlord verbs
• Solving the 'it' problem: dealing with ambiguity
• Writing commands with semantic roles
• A proposed inventory of semantic roles
• A proposal for a data-based approach to localizing Ubiquity

Notes

• Language-based interfaces part 1: the problem
• Why verbs?
• Jono on the current Japanese parser

See also other Ubiquity-related blog posts by mitcho, the resident linguist.

Documentation

• Parser 1 (the original parser - currently in use)
  • Parser documentation
  • Localization (writing your own parser) tutorial
• Parser 2 (the new parser - in development)
  • Parser design doc
  • Adding your language to Ubiquity Parser 2

Particular language focus/proposals

• Ubiquity in Firefox: Focus on Japanese
• Thinking Ubiquity in Portugese
• Thinking Ubiquity in Italian