This one is way beyond me when it comes to the programming aspects. But here are some thoughts from a multilingual author's/user's standpoint.
(BTW, I can't write anything more than basic code myself so my hope is to study the options out there on "the market" and put them on display for the folks that really know what they are doing.)
Tags are used by an author to describe content so that it can be grouped with similar objects and found by interested users.
In the simplest case, an author would create their content in as many languages as they are able and then create a list of multilingual tags (e.g. hello, tere, hola, bonjour). More complex approaches could keep tags in linguisticly separated fields so as to simplify their display per audience.
The obvious result of duplicating tags in multiple languages is an enormous tag cloud. In a site facilitating conversation between two langauges, the tag cloud could potentially double in size. The more languages we add to the mix, the bigger the cloud gets. As long as our searches are not visually based, this won't be much of a problem. But according to our definition of tags, searching is only one of the functions of tags. The other function is to visually categorize content. And this is where the problems come in.
Initial recommendations
Any other suggestions?
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You must log in to post replies.Just came across an academic study done on the usefulness of multilingual tagging. The abstract had this to say:
If you're interested in this side of things, here's a link to their SlideShare presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/vuorikari/vuorikari-multilingual-tagging-behaviour-by-teachers
"Semantic Tagging" by Faviki and others ... interesting option which addresses these very problems