A document localization, management and delivery system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically determines the language and country of a Web site visitor and directs the Web server to deliver the appropriate localized content contained in a country/language database to the visitor's browser. The visitor's browser is notified of the proper font and content encoding needed to display the selected language and is allowed to download the font. A toolkit is provided which allows a master site to be built that is language and country-independent. The actual language and country content is placed in a language/country database where it is easily managed and maintained. When a visitor enters the site, the requested document is automatically served in the visitor's language and for the visitor's country by filling in a document template from the master site with the correct language content from the language/country database. A viewer allows the developer to view and debug the document template as it appears to a visitor in any of the available language content from the language/country database.

Multilingual electronic document translation, management, and delivery system

A translation management system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically detects when a document, data stream, or non-text file in the master language has been updated and notifies the user which corresponding documents, data streams, or non-text files in the other languages require translation which are then staged and dynamically routed and sequenced to individual translation resources where the actual translation is performed. Management status, reporting, scheduling, and accounting information is sent to the user as the translation process ensues. The user is notified of the completion of translation and the invention coordinates the delivery of the translated documents, data streams, or non-text files back to the user's site for installation and optional review. The invention makes a variety of translation resources instantly available to the user which include both automated translation tools as well as human translators. The translation resources are connected to the invention using a flexible architecture that can be deployed on intranets as well as the Internet.

Translation management system

Upon receipt of a document request, a client assistant examines its cache for the document. If not successful, a server searches for the requested document in its cache. If the server copy is still not fresh or not found, the server seeks the document from its host. If the host cannot provide the copy, the server seeks it from a document repository. Certain documents are identified from the document repository as being fresh or stable. Information about each these identified documents is transmitted to the server which inserts entries into an index if the index does not already contain an entry for the document. If and when this particular document is requested, the document will not be present in the server, however the server will contain an entry directing the server to obtain the document from the document repository rather than the document's web host.

System and method of accessing a document efficiently through multi-tier web caching

A method for transferring information between a server (24) and a client (28), through a converter (22), comprising: analyzing at least a portion of the information by the converter (22), to determine a standard used by the server (24) to encode the information in the portion; and replacing at least a portion of the analyzed information with other information, which other information uses a second standard, wherein analyzing comprises parsing the information on a syntactic level and wherein the information comprises at least one Internet hypertext document.

Automatic conversion system

A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for delivering customized content to clients with diverse content needs, such as clients from diverse geographical areas an language backgrounds. Customizable content is separated from the underlying code, which is used as a template for inserting localized content into a basic document framework as represented by the template. Both electronic mail and Web community customization techniques are disclosed.

Creation and delivery of customized content

Since a library is inherently multi-lingual, a multi-linguid document environment is crucial for a digital library. In the near future, worldwide information sharing through digital libraries will be common. Currently, multi-lingual documents are poorly facilitated on computers and the Internet. It is impractical to consider installing fonts for all character sets in every user’s terminal. This paper presents a multilingual document browsing tool for a user with no multilingual fonts on his or her terminal. It discusses several methods for browsing multi-linguaJ documents and proposes a browser which sends a text string with the font glyphs required to display the text. It also gives the evaluation result of the browser.

A browsing tool of multi-lingual documents for users without multi-lingual fonts

national network, and a multilingual browser is an essential tool for international access to and sharing of global information. The Web has expanded very rapidly worldwide. We can easily access a document from a foreign site using an off-the-shelf browser. However, that browser is usually capable of showing only documents written in English and a local language, not those written in other languages. The principal problem preventing users from browsing documents written in a foreign A new technology allows users to browse multilingual documents on the Internet. language is the lack of both a font for the language and a display function to process multiple character codes. We developed a technology called MHTML to browse multilingual documents on an off-the-shelf Web browser, and applied the technology to a multilingual gateway service to browse foreign documents and to a multilingual electronic text collection of Japanese folk tales [2, 3, 4]. MHTML technology is composed of three elements: The MHTML document object is a package containing a source text string and the minimum set of glyphs required to display the text. An HTML text specified by a URL in an applet tag to invoke the MHTML viewer is converted into an MHTML document object on the fly and sent to the viewer by an MHTML server. (A glyph of a character is a graphical entity used to display or print the character. A minimum set of glyphs for a text is a set of glyphs for all of the distinct characters that appear in the text.) The MHTML viewer, implemented as a Java applet, displays an MHTML document object on a Web browser using only the glyphs enclosed in the object. The MHTML server, with the viewer applet and a font bank, converts an HTML document into MHTML using the glyphs defined in the font bank. The four major advantages of MHTML technology begin with its simple user environment where the user installs only a Java-enabled browser. Secondly, the number of distinct characters used in a source text is much smaller than the total number of characters of the text. We found the ratio between the length of an MTHML document object and its source text was approximately 2:1 to 3:1 in the case of scientific articles written in Japanese. (The source Japanese character is encoded in two bytes. The font glyph is the bitmap data of a character, and its size …

Viewing multilingual documents on your local Web browser

A Mulitlingual Electronic Text Collection of Folk Tales for CasualUsers Using Off-the-Shelf Browsers

Folk tales are an important heritage of every nation. Electronic text collections of folk tales are meaningful information resources for people who wish to learn about foreign cultures and their languages. This paper describes an electronic text collection of old folk tales which was developed using a multilingual document browsing system called the MHTML browser system, a gateway service to help clients access and display WWW documents written in foreign or multiple languages that the client browser cannot display by itself. The MHTML browser system converts a WWW document into a form which contains the source text and the minimum set of font glyphs required to display the text. The converted document object is sent to the client with a set of applets which display the document on the client browser. Since the glyphs are sent to the client from the MHTML gateway, the client does not need to have installed the fonts for the multilingual document, provided that the client is Java-enabled. The folk tale collection currently includes ten old Japanese folk tales. Each tale is written in English, French, and Japanese, and the user can show the three texts of a tale simultaneously on his/her WWW browser, e.g., Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Thus, a consumer user utilizing an off-the-shelf WWW browser can get a multilingual document on the fly without any additional procedures to set up his/her environment. In this paper, we first discuss the technological background of MHTML and the multilingual browser service for the digital library, as well as the issues involved in building the folk tale collection.

Building a Multi-lingual Electronic Text Collection of Folk Tales as a Set of Encapsulated Document Objects: An Approach for Casual Users to Browse Multi-lingual Documents on the Fly

知識ベースシステムは,検索戦略の立て方がわからないような一般利用者に適した,情報の蓄積·提供システムである。マルチメディア知識ベースシステムは,映像や音響などのマルチメディア情報を導入した,知識ベースシステムである。マルチメディア情報の導入によって利用者の親しみが増し,利用者に情報をより理解しやすく提供することができる。本稿ではまず知識ベースシステムの基本概念と特徴について述べる。次にマルチメディア知識ベースシステムの基本的な考え方について述べ,さらにその構築手法について,読書相談のための知識ベースシステムの構築を例にとって説明する。

Takehisa Fujita

Papers

A browsing tool of multi-lingual documents for users without multi-lingual fonts

Viewing multilingual documents on your local Web browser

A Mulitlingual Electronic Text Collection of Folk Tales for CasualUsers Using Off-the-Shelf Browsers

Building a Multi-lingual Electronic Text Collection of Folk Tales as a Set of Encapsulated Document Objects: An Approach for Casual Users to Browse Multi-lingual Documents on the Fly

Multi-Media Knowledge-based system.