NDLI: Google's international bloopers... and how we fixed one

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Davis, Mark
Abstract	Google has millions of users around the world.but occasionally we mess up. We'll explore some of Google's international "bloopers" and show how to avoid similar mistakes in other applications. We'll also highlight how we solved a persistent blooper, namely having UI strings like "Alice has added 3 contact to his address book." Our Plural/Gender API allows complicated UI strings to change appropriately, based on numbers and personal gender. We'll look at the document formats used to express plural and gendered messages, and explore the impact on the translation process.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	102
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450308632
DOI	10.1145/2034691.2034715
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2011-09-19
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Number agreement Internationalization Gender agreement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Google's international bloopers... and how we fixed one