Multilingual Content Management in Web Environment

Abstract

Internet has become primary medium for information access and commerce in today's globalized world and the demographics of the Internet are rapidly turning to be multilingual. Therefore, multilingual content management can be treated as a vital issue for the availability of information in the native languages of the Internet users. To provide the contents to the users in their native languages most of the current approaches keep information for each language and present user's information from the chosen language. Developing such systems is both space and time consuming and is not an efficient one. With standard HTML pages, this process involves creating and maintaining multiple versions of each page for each supported language as well as having the language content embedded into the HTML. In this paper, a multilingual content management technique that is based on natural language translation mechanism has been introduced, which can reduce the time and space of the existing systems. In the propose approach, the information is stored in a single language and the contents are translated into user's chosen language. The system has been evaluated by both syntactic data and real data obtained from a real life schema. We have compared the performance of our system with existing systems. Our system outperforms the existing systems in terms of both space and time.