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Multilingual Indexes for Detection and Translation

Impact Rapid availability of bilingual dictionaries and indexes Order of magnitude increase in language coverage Cross-language search for many languages not currently searchable. New Ideas Accessing the world’s existing digital libraries in 400 languages to create vocabulary indexes

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Multilingual Indexes for Detection and Translation

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  1. Impact Rapid availability of bilingual dictionaries and indexes Order of magnitude increase in language coverage Cross-language search for many languages not currently searchable New Ideas Accessing the world’s existing digital libraries in 400 languages to create vocabulary indexes Using vocabulary indexes for translingual information detection and translation Detection of English loan-words in non-Roman alphabets and scripts In Arabic Chinese Greek Japanese Korean Russian Tamil Find Plutonium Multilingual Indexes for Detection and Translation • Schedule • FY ‘00 Indexes for English-German and English-Japanese • FY ‘01 Prototype vocabulary index for multiple languages. • FY ’02 Multiple bilingual dictionary creation. Geo-referencing and map display. Michael K. Buckland, Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson: University of California, Berkeley

  2. In Arabic Chinese Greek Japanese Korean Russian Tamil Find Plutonium Berkeley: Translingual Information Management Digital libraries Statistical association • Rapid creation of resources for translingual work. • Use resources of digital libraries – 400+ languages • -- 8,000 words Afghan/Pushto to English glossary in 30 minutes • -- 20,000 word corpus of Afghan/Pushto text in 3 hours • Dynamic “Time-Map” Displays • -- Show geographical related events: Illness and cities • -- Show change & movement over time: Spread of epidemic.

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