Service to lend and borrow people and people from all over the world "Airbnb" Inner curtains until the start of the Japanese version



Room rental service where you can rent a room from people all over the world or lend your own room "Airbnb"Official site of Japan Although the Japanese version opened, it took only a few days for the time it took to fully publish a website that corresponded to Japanese until it was released. There was Airbnb's unique expertise, which has built local sites around the world.

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https://www.airbnb.jp/


Launching airbnb.jp in record time - Airbnb Engineering
http://nerds.airbnb.com/launching-airbnb-jp/

◆ What is Airbnb?
Airbnb,Services that can rent a room from community membersis. There are various types such as one private room at home, one apartment, one villa and one apartment. Cruisers are available for rent. The member who rents the room is called "host", the person who borrows the room is called "client", but the host is scattered in 34,000 cities in 192 countries and the client rents the room from the host as a traveling inn In recent years the number of Japanese clients using services has increased.

Airbnb provides a service that mediates between hosts wanting to rent vacant space and clients wanting to rent a room, clients can examine the contents of hosts and rooms with Airbnb's site and mobile applications, and actually You can tell the host the questions and booking offers. Airbnb guarantees the host's authorization, and the host can contact the client in advance to make a rental offer, and if you do not like it you can refuse the offer. Consideration is given so that both the host and the client can convince the client to lend and borrow the room.


Information on the host and room can be selected according to the search service named listing, and it can be searched by the type of room, rental fee, staying date and time, number of beds, number of bathrooms, native language of host etc is.


Airbnb, which can rent a room from hosts all over the world, received requests from enthusiastic community members, the other day the official site Japan versionAirbnb.jpAlthough it opened, it took only a few days to actually build and publish the site. What was the inner curtain like?

Airbnb is basically a home site when making sites in various countriesAirbnb.comI will translate it. However, since Airbnb's website · mobile application contains about 400,000 words of English words, it takes time to translate it. Therefore, Airbnb greatly shortens the time required for this translation by preparing various "gimmicks", realizing the local site release in a short period of time.

◆ t () method
Airbnb collects staff to translate to build a local site. However, it is difficult to translate all 400,000 words of English words at a stretch, so we prioritize the parts to translate immediately and those to be specified later.

The tag for translation called "t () method" is adopted as the server data of Airbnb so that the person in charge can grasp the priority of translation.


With the t () method, it is possible to detect and recall the phrases called in the last 4 days of the service of the Airbnb site, and this data makes it possible for the translator in the world to actually read it It is possible to grasp which sentences are, and it is a mechanism that can translate preferentially.


◆ Translation tool
またAirbnbでは独自の翻訳ツールを開発、前後関係を含めた意訳ができるようサポートしています。このツールではt()メソッド内で特定のフレーズをというタグで囲むことで自動的にJavaScriptに変換し、そのフレーズが関連づけられるというもの。例えば、カレンダー内で使われる「never」というフレーズは、「(ホストが入室情報を)一度も更新していない」という内容の意味を持つことを翻訳担当者が一目で理解できるようになっています。


◆ Timestamp
Airbnb has adopted a timestamp so that information on local sites around the world can be shared on all sites. Thanks to the timestamp, if a new phrase is added in the database, a new phrase hierarchy will be created automatically and this information will be communicated to local sites around the world. Also, if requested by a translator or site staff, a check is made as to whether the local translation is up-to-date, and if there is update information, it will be updated automatically.

◆ Analog method
Of course, even if you use the t () method or translation tool, it is inevitable that there are places where it is hard to understand when the client uses the content. As a result, as soon as it finds a mistake in translation of the site or mobile application, the translator is continuing to correct it manually.

When launching Airbnb.jp, Airbnb management first asked cooperation with a host resident in Tokyo. The request for assistance soon spread to the Airbnb community and succeeded in getting support from enthusiastic members welcoming the construction of the Japanese site, and the quick launch was realized. The biggest factor that Airbnb can quickly build and publish the site is said to be an enthusiastic supporter than know-how.

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