Shigeo Sugimoto

Topic

Extension of MHTML to Text Input and Text Search Functions in Multiple Languages on Off-the-Shelf.

Abstract

The World Wide Web (WWW) covers all over the world. However, browsing function for documents in multiple languages is not widely available yet for casual users. From the viewpoint of digital libraries, functions to display and input multilingual texts are obviously crucial. Multilingual HTML (MHTML) is a browser technology for multilingual documents on WWW. The authors developed a display function of multilingual documents based on the MHTML technology. This technology was intended as a simple, light, easy-to-use and inexpensive technology to view multilingual documents via the Internet. The authors have extended it to text input function in multiple languages on off-the-shelf browsers. The new technology gained by this extension for end-users of digital libraries where they are able to view and search multilingual documents from any off-the-shelf browser. In addition to the extended MHTML technology, this paper shows an SGML-based full-text retrieval system which is developed using the extended MHTML. It has a user interface to input queries and to display results in multiple languages