Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
languages by combining machine translation services offered by Language Grid. The
intended users are foreign residents of Japan from the ten most commonly represented
countries—North and South Korea, China, Brazil, the Philippines, Peru, USA,
Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the UK [7]. (Nine languages were actually used
due to repetition of the primary language.)
The system configuration of the multilingual translation service is as follows (refer
to Figure 10): The user starts by accessing a website written by JSP, to select their
mobile phone carrier, the pictogram to query, the target age group/gender, and the
language to translate into. The pictogram interpretation table and standard-language
correspondence table (described later) receive the query, and output the result (the
Fig. 10.
System configuration of multilingual translation service
