OurWord

Facilitates a two column translation approach with Scripture text, the source text on one side and the target text on the other side. They write:

We are coining the term "manual adaptation" to refer to OurWord's process. Software such as Carla and AdaptIt are implementations of "computer adaptation", where the computer replaces words from one language with words in the other language in order to produce an initial draft. With "manual adaptation" the translator still relies on the source language, but rather than receiving word-by-word suggestions from the computer, the translator crafts the translation himself. Thus he is able to address such things as resolving collocational clashes, deciding on appropriate idioms, etc.

We still call this process "adaptation," because of the heavy reliance on a source text. By using a good source text, many man-years are saved that would otherwise be spent on activities such as exegesis and decisions on how to represent concepts within the language family and culture. Adaptation plays a major role in most Seed Company projects.

Version	1.8
Developer	John Wimbish
Supported	none
SIL Status
Supported Operating Systems	Windows, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 7 x64
Unicode Support	Yes
Suitable tasks	SCRIPTURE TRANSLATION Access reference materials (such as commentaries and translation notes) Access original biblical language texts and other source texts Create and edit drafts of books directly Make medium-quality printouts for testing/sharing purposes Verify that no pieces of information (verses, perhaps phrases) have been accidentally omitted Create back-translations in an LWC Mark the test/check status of each verse or section Localizable (i.e. user interface can be translated) With a simple user interface for new computer users Compare/merge edits to the same data across multiple computers Control which users can edit which data Version control and backups With support for multiple scripts Archive data directly through the internet
Interface Language	English, Portuguese, Indonesian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai
License	MIT
Download Page	http://ourwordsoftware.org/Download/Default.aspx
Website	http://ourwordsoftware.org
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