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Chapter 9. BEYTrans 1476.2.2 Multilingual editorThe BEYTrans online editor allows translators to edit in a rich environment that,among other functions, efficiently manages document formats, and includes languagehelps to speed up translation and improve quality. A set of translated segmentsis proposed by the CTM with dictionary suggestions. Translators can alsocall up several free web MT services to produce pre-translations (e.g., Systran,Reverso and Google), and improve them later by post-editing (Allen 2001).The editor was developed separately and then integrated into the core of theWiki. It consists of an Excel-like grid interface (based on free open source software)which displays in parallel format source and target translation units (Dhtmlgrid2007). If they wish, translators can translate into many languages at the same timeby adding new columns.It is important to note that the editor data is managed as XML data. The textualsegments (TUs) stored in the TC and CTM are transformed into an XMLformat compatible with the Excel-like grid. These segments are extracted usingXML XPATH and inserted in a set of XML element “cells” as follow (XPath 2008): TU 1 TU 2 TU 3 ... ... ; where TU i are translation units and the XML element“row” defines a set of TUs to be displayed in the same line (e.g., the source TU andits translation) (Fig. 4).Figure 4. The BEYTrans multilingual editor and online linguistic help