The multilingual World Wide Web
- Resource Type
- Academic Journal
- Authors
- Appleby, S; Prol, M Pombo
- Source
- BT Technology Journal. Jan 01, 2000 18(1):71-72
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1358-3948
The advent of the World Wide Web and the ensuing growth in the popularity of the Internet have all but removed the significance of geographic borders in information sharing. The barriers that do remain are primarily linguistic and cultural. This has created a huge demand for translation. The dynamic nature of the Internet, and the unreliability of the information to be found there, means that translation needs to be carried out cheaply and quickly. This paper reviews the current state of the art in multilingual information processing in general and machine translation technology in particular. The work at Adastral Park to develop an ‘Interlingual’ machine translation system to assist with authoring multilingual documents is described.