1. Multilingual Indexes for Detection and Translation
Find
Plutonium
In Arabic
Chinese
Greek
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Tamil
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
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.
Impact
Rapid availability of bilingual dictionaries and indexes
Order of magnitude increase in language coverage
Cross-language search for many languages not currently searchable
Michael K. Buckland, Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson: University of California, Berkeley

2. Berkeley: Translingual Information Management
Find
Plutonium
In Arabic
Chinese
Greek
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Tamil
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.