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3.4 System Configuration
Figure 5 shows the system configuration of the multilingual chat support system.
The input sentence that the translation object (Bench-type translation object in
the translation chat room and the HUD-type object) received from the Second
Life server passed through the relay server (Figure 5(B)).
The relay server authenticated the user, limited the translation frequency, and
recorded the user log. Then, the input sentence was sent to the translation server
(Figure 5 (D)) through the language grid[12] server (Figure 5 (C)).
The relay server sent the translated sentence to the Second Life server
(Figure 5 (B)). Finally, the translation object displayed the translated sentence
in Second Life. The back translation was carried out using an almost similar
procedure.
4 Experiment 1: Portable Multilingual Chat
Communication System
We carried out an experiment using the portable multilingual chat communica-
tion system. In the experiment, five Japanese university students chatted with
some unspecified general users in Second Life.
The purpose of the experiment was to investigate what problems occurred
during the use of the portable multilingual chat communication system in Second
Life. The procedure of the experiment was as follows:
1. A subject installed the portable translation system (HUD-type translation
object) in his/her avatar.
User PC
Second Life
server
Internet
Relay
server
Language Grid
server
Translation
server
Translation
server
Translation
server
Fig. 5.
System configuration of the multilingual chat support system
