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Ta b l e 1 .
Average processing time of translation (in sec.)
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evaluate an actual performance, we translated 5 Japanese sentences for 10 times, and
measured the average processing time of each translation in both methods. Table 1
shows the result.
The processing time of the English-mediated translation is 1.23 seconds in average
and that of the direct translation is 8.46 seconds in average. If the number of languages
to be translated increases, the processing time increases significantly.
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Related Works
We discuss the advantages of CoSMOS by comparing with conventional systems, as
shown below, to support intercultural collaboration.
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TransBBS
TransBBS[6] is a multilingual bulletin board system. The system is the most basic
type of intercultural collaboration support system and supports text based collab-
orations. By using machine translation services, submitted messages are automati-
cally translated into other languages on the BBS.
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AnnoChat
AnnoChat[5] is a multilingual chat system. The system has an annotation function,
in which an image or text message can be attached to a term as a note, to assist the
users in different cultural background to understand the meaning of the term.
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Flickr
Flickr
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is a representative photo-sharing community system. The users can easily
share photos on the Web system by uploading them. They can collaborate with each
other by submitting comments to photos.
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Google Maps
Google Maps
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is a most widely used GIS (Geographical Information System) in
the world. The system stores, manages, and presents various types of geographical
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http://www.flickr.com/
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http://maps.google.com/
