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The W3C Internationalization Tag Set 2.0 - developed by the W3C MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group enhances the foundation to integrate automated processing of human language into core Web technologies. ITS 2.0 bears many commonalities with is predecessor ITS 1.0 but provides additional concepts that are designed to foster the automated creation and processing of multilingual Web content. ITS 2.0 focuses on HTML, XML-based formats in general, and can leverage processing based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF), as well as the Natural Language Processing Interchange Format (NIF).
The W3C MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group received funding by the European Commission (project LT-Web|) through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the area of Language Technologies (Grant Agreement No. 287815). As part of their activities, members of the Working Group and the LT-Web project created various implementations that exemplify how ITS 2.0 supports automated processing of human language into core Web technologies. These implementations/the corresponding usage scenarios are sketched in this document. Each section of the document comprises the following:
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This document describes usage scenarios and related implementations for Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 enhances the foundation to integrate both automated and manual processing of human language into core Web technologies.
The work described in this document receives funding by the European Commission (project MultilingualWeb-LT (LT-Web) ) through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the area of Language Technologies (Grant Agreement No. 287815).
This document is a First Public Working Draft published by the MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group, part of the W3C Internationalization Activity. The Working Group expects to advance this Working Draft to Working Group Note (see W3C document maturity levels).
By publishing this working draft the working group does not express any consensus about the implementation approach, the use cases described or the proposed metadata items. The main purpose of this publication is to gather feedback from a wider audience.
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