JAXA Multi Lingual Study

Kengo Aizawa / JAXAHiromichi Fukui /KEIO UNIV

WGISS-21 MAY 2006

Budapest,Hungary

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Objective

An objective of multi-lingualization is to provide the information on and the outputs from CEOS activities widely and clearly through the internet.

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Requirement

Multi-lingualized web sites should be; created and maintained efficiently,

(by limited cost and workload) sustainable translated correctly

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Problems

Preliminary investigation revealed... Pre-translated pages;

offer good translation need a lot of cost and workload to maintain.

Dynamic translation services (e.g. Google) ; easy for everyone to translate Translated sentences often don’t make any sense hard to translate technical terms

Besides... Web sites in English make us (many of Japanese) nervous

(mental barrier).

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JAXA’s idea

A hybrid service is effective to solve the problems.

The hybrid service is composed of; Pre-translated pages (Manual) Dynamic translation services Non-translation

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Hybrid Service (1/2)

Pre-translated pages are suited for; Top page

(important for the first visitors) Terms of Reference

(frequent update is NOT necessary) The other general information

(step by step)

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Hybrid Service (2/2)

Dynamic translation services are suited for the pages that need frequent update such as What’s new Blog

Non-translation service is suited for Event information (calendar)

(date, place, organizer etc.) Technical information

(hard to translate automatically)

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Pre-translated

Non-Translation

Example

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method of realization

CEOS WGISS Web Server

Establish proxy server for multilingual

English user

Multilingual user

Internet

Internet

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DEMO

JAXA create a prototype with CEOS WGISS websites.

URL: http://geoinfo1.sfc.keio.ac.jp/wgiss2/

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Future issues

For better Dynamic translation... Make English sentences shorter and simpler Make a dictionary for the technical terms Cooperate with Google?

(provide the dictionary)