<div dir="ltr"><div>Note see <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ttf/2019-December/001347.html">https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ttf/2019-December/001347.html</a> for the text of this email as posted to the Technology Taskforce list. The next call of the TTF is
Monday, 09 December 2019 at 16:00 UTC .</div><div><br></div><div>
<div>Dear All, <br></div><div><br></div><div>A new rewritten
version of the translation tool for translating emails between two
language lists is ready for testing! The new version of the tool is
installed for the new transbot lists :</div><div>* New-Transbot-EN (<a href="https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/new-transbot-en/" target="_blank">https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/new-transbot-en/</a>)</div><div>* New-Transbot-ES (<a href="https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/new-transbot-es/" target="_blank">https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/new-transbot-es/</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>If
there are any new members that wish to be part of the testing, they can
request subscription to the new-transbot mailing lists from these links
(for the full testing experience it is recommended they subscribe to
both lists so they can see the source and target email):<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></div><br><div>* Subscribe to new-transbot-en : <a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/new-transbot-en" target="_blank">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/new-transbot-en</a></div><div>* Subscribe to new-transbot-es : <a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/new-transbot-es" target="_blank">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/new-transbot-es</a></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div>Some background - LACRALO has two mailing lists</div><div><ul><li>lac-discuss-en : <a href="https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-en/" target="_blank">https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-en/</a> </li><li><span>lac-discuss-es : <a href="https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-es/" target="_blank">https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-es/</a> </span></li></ul><p>Emails
in English sent to lac-discuss-en are machine translated to Spanish and
posted to lac-discuss-es. Similarly emails in Spanish are posted to
lac-discuss-es and machine translated to English and posted to
lac-discuss-en. <br></p><p>The custom tool to translate emails was first developed circa 2011 and had numerous problems. The wiki page at <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues</a> has a detailed breakdown of these historical issues.</p><p>In
spite of an updated version of the tool in 2017, it was noted that in
2018 and 2019, there were numerous emails not being translated. Given
the difficulties of working with code developed in 2010 and trying to
add features, ICANN IT decided to redo the tool after ICANN65 and
engaged a firm to rebuild the tool from scratch. <br></p><p>And the new
tool has been developed. Barring any showstopper bugs, the tool is set
to be deployed to the LACRALO mailing lists later this month.<br></p><p>More
details about the tool will be presented on the TTF call on Monday. So,
if you're able to test the tool, do subscribe to the new-transbot-en
and new-transbot-es lists and post to a list to see how the tool handles
the text.</p><p>Kind Regards,</p><p>Dev Anand Teelucksingh</p></div>
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