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138 Youcef Bey, Christian Boitet and Kyo Kageuracoordinate with other translators, share skills, and solve translation problems(Aguirre et al. 2000);– Translators cannot efficiently and systematically look up existing translateddocument pairs within the overall community environment when translatingnew related documents. In other words, there is no well-developed functionfor facilitating immediate and well-managed sharing of translation memories(TMs) by communities;– An online editor that could be used collaboratively by multiple translators insame community is not provided;– Sometimes the range of file formats that the system can deal with is too limited.On the other hand, a community-oriented working environment such as Wiki,which some translator communities are using for mutual communication and coordination,lacks functions necessary for translation activities. Among the mostimportant are:– the lack of a unified management of documents and language resources in thesame environment (dictionaries, glossaries, TMs, etc.);– the lack of language resources functions, which are not provided, whether duringtranslation or for preparation of the translation work, and later duringpost-edition.Delving deeper into individual translators’ or translation communities’ behaviorwould show that there are many other needs that are not sufficiently metat present, but, for the moment, we limit our work to solving the major problemsmentioned above, which are common to many translators and translationcommunities.Volunteer translators want solutions to these deficiencies to be provided in aunified way. Furthermore, as they are typically not computer experts and do nothave the ability or time to do system-related tasks, it is important to ensure thatthey do not need to perform technical tasks such as editing HTML and XML tagsor modifying script programs. Let us now outline proposals for tackling the majorproblems described above.3. Proposals for solving existing deficienciesAgainst this backdrop, we have postulated three major points to be pursued indeveloping BEYTrans as a system aimed at online volunteer translators engaged incommunity-based translation.