Engineering multilingual internet commerce

摘要

In the paper we describe our three tools that address the WWW multilinguality, namely Webtran, CONE and Unifier software. Webtran is a machine translation software that has been specifically designed for fully automatic translation of domain specific texts in online services. It is in daily use translating product descriptions in a mailorder company in Finland. CONE is a conceptual network software that includes an editing tool for defining domain ontologies embedding linguistic information and a user interface tool enabling multilingual navigation to information. It has been used to provide cross-lingual access to consumer protection legislation of some countries in European Union (EU). Unifier software helps in correcting erroneous or inexact text inputs of end-user customers in online services. For instance, it can be embedded to correct and homogenise address information.