Originally established as a software documentation and translation company, Keyword decided to develop its own tools for authoring and localizing man-machine interfaces. In 1985 it brought out swim, a comprehensive system for automating terminology USAge in the production of localized versions of user-interfaces. Consisting of a toolbox of screen generators and editors, swim can download the original software, analyze batches of screens for terminology extraction, compare different versions, and produce bi- and monolingual lexicons, as well as provide an interactive on-line documentation generation module.
    One of the company’s current projects is localizing the hundreds of screens and thousands of text strings in the atlasbanking software for the Belgian bank Société Générale in various European countries and in the USA, due for completion at the end of 1992. Using another Keyword product ISIMAN, a corporate information systems interface manager, the atlas software is downloaded as a virtual system on a network of pcs for highly detailed customization.
    Keyword is moving further into the realm of the virtual with the development of a workbench of other hypertext-driven tools for building interfaces that render a company transparent to its highly distributed networked employees. In this context, Keyword’s founder Daniel Delpuech contributed to the recent Informatique ’92 “Interfaces to Real and Virtual Worlds” show held in Montpellier.

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