An automatic English-Arabic HTML page translation system

The Internet and the World Wide Web have become an integral part of everyday life, an important source of information and a communication medium. One of the main problems confronting non-English speakers in using the Internet is that it is heavily dominated by the English language. Knowledge of Engl...

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Published inJournal of network and computer applications Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 333 - 357
Main Authors Zantout, Rached N., Guessoum, Ahmed A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2001
Elsevier
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Miscellaneous
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Teleprocessing networks. Isdn
English
Arabic
Prototype
Language processing
Automatic translation
HTML language
World wide web
Internet
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Summary:The Internet and the World Wide Web have become an integral part of everyday life, an important source of information and a communication medium. One of the main problems confronting non-English speakers in using the Internet is that it is heavily dominated by the English language. Knowledge of English is a prerequisite for using the Web efficiently and benefiting from the multitude of services it offers. This paper introduces the approach underlying a prototype system that translates Web pages from English to Arabic automatically. The system uses a commercial machine translation system to translate the textual part of a Web page. It then displays a Web page containing the Arabic translation with all tags inserted in the right places so that the layout and content of the original (English) page are preserved.
ISSN:1084-8045
1095-8592
DOI:10.1006/jnca.2001.0135