An innovative platform to allow translation of Internet sites

An innovative platform to allow full translation of Internet sites Théo Hoffenberg CEO - Founder, Softissimo theo@softissimo.com Christophe Brun-Franc Project Manager, Softissimo cbf@softissimo.com �Abstract This paper introduces FLAVIUS, an in- novative platform to allow full translation and indexing of Internet sites. The EC-funded FLAVIUS project aims at providing an end-to-end solution for Internet content publishers of small to very large sites that would allow them to get their content translated and indexed in other languages, with a variety of op- tions. Most sites cannot be found easily by users who browse in other languages. A German user is unlikely to find a French provider if he looks for a collectible, a piece of fur����������������������������es provide instant translation. This presentation will show how FLAVIUS can ease the process of trans- lating and indexing a website; and the benefits that Internet content publishers can expect for the audience of their web- site. We will demonstrate through a con- crete case the novelty and the advantages of this platform. 1 Introduction Most Internet contents are available in a single language. Users may not find the information they are looking for, simply because it is not available in the language they are searching in. ������������������������������������������� who wants some information about the red mountains Birmingham Alabama will probably ������������������������������������������a- ������������������� will not get any relevant results. However, the Red ����������������� © 2011 European Association for Machine Translation. website provides interesting information in Eng- lish that could be useful to him. ������������������������������������������ website could have translated his website in French. But it would have implied significant costs and time that he might not want to spend. He could also have integrated an instant transla- tion plug-in to his website so that the user could translate it, page by page. Anyway, his website would not have been found through a search in French. FLAVIUS, which stands for Foreign LAn- guage Version of Internet and User-generated Site, is an EC-funded project that aims at bridg- ing the communication gap between the Internet content publishers who write in their own lan- guage and the end-users that search for content in another language. Its objective is to provide In- ternet content publishers with a cost efficient, quick and easy solution to offer localized con- tents, through an online platform that translates a website as a whole in as many languages as needed and allows the translated versions to be indexed. Reverso-Softissimo, which is a pioneer in language technologies, is the coordinator of the project that encompasses 6 other partners.1 2 A novel solution Currently, several sites provide instant transla- tion but this technology does not allow getting multilingual version of a website that can be in- dexed by search engines like any other hand- written page. Search engines, for example Google, offer cross-lingual search. However, the feature is not very visible to the user, for whom this way of search is not intuitive at all. 1 3 technological partners, namely Language Weaver, Across and Daedalus and 3 user partners, namely …

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