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be correct. On the other hand, if the back-translation does not make sense, the transla-
tion is estimated to be incorrect. The student fixes his/her input until the input text and
its back-translation look similar.
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Intercultural Collaboration Support Using CoSMOS
CoSMOS
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has been available on the Internet. Currently, 15 disaster safety maps from
12 countries are uploaded on CoSMOS. Anyone can view disaster safety maps, but only
registered users can post notes to prevent from spams.
CoSMOS can display the contents in one of five languages; Japanese, English, Turk-
ish, French, and Chinese (Traditional) and there are buttons to switch the user language
on the top bar of CoSMOS.
Fig. 3.
Top page of CoSMOS
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Viewing Disaster Safety Maps
The top page of CoSMOS is the world map shown in Fig. 3. Individual disaster safety
maps created by students over the world are linked from the world map.
A red marker indicates the location of a disaster safety map. When we move a mouse
cursor over a marker, a balloon to describe a summary of the corresponding disaster
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