Part IV Proposal

Section 1 Summary

　It is crossing リンガル information technology as a subject with
which it is a national level and the bottom of international
cooperation should be preponderantly tackled in order to respond to
the new request to the multilingual processing and the machine
translation in the borderless Internet international society in the
21st century. (CLINT = Cross Lingual INformation Technology) Research
and development are proposed.

　CLINT is most important infrastructure that realizes language
barrier-free in various information accesses in the international
society in the 21st century. CLINT of the Asia language is proposed as
a main subject especially here. And CLINT with a European and American
language is proposed as a related subject. CLINT -- the crossing
between many languages -- リンガル intellectual information access
(crossing リンガル information access) It is technology and basic
technology, such as Web perusal, information guidance, information
retrieval, information discovery, information extraction, an
information summary, an Electronic Library, the electronic government,
e-commerce, e-mail, e-phone, and a human interface for these, is
reclaimed. Various language data, a processing system, and
systematization are included in basic technology. Moreover, the
various application systems which are actually useful based on such
basic technology are offered one by one as a practical use system
according to the stage of development of technology.


Section 2 Background and Problem

　the demand of the multilingual processing and the machine
translation for an opportunity accessing Web written in the foreign
language by the rapid spread of the Internet and an opportunity
sending and receiving information in a different language increasing,
and supporting it -- the former -- furthermore, it has risen In order
to respond to such a pressing need request in the turning point of the
multilingual processing in an Internet society, and in order to attain
improvement and development of a technical leap and service, you have
to tackle the bottom of international cooperation preponderantly on a
national level to CLINT.

　In North America, in the U.S., the measure was taken for machine
translation from the viewpoint of information gathering in the world
etc., and the measure has been taken for machine translation from the
administrative viewpoint coping with two official languages etc. in
Canada. and ask the present when the Internet spread that the
preponderant measure taken for machine translation also from the
viewpoint of a functional advancement of the Internet of the future --
る

　In Europe, the measure from the viewpoint of administration service
with the language of 12 etc. to machine translation has been taken
from the fact that European Union has the official language of 12. and
ask present that the preponderant measure taken for the machine
translation from recognition called the main matters for [ same with
North America ] machine translation carrying out the functional
advancement of the Internet of the future -- る

　It is thought that these North America and Europe form the two poles
in the present world. It seems that and partial cooperation is being
performed about multilingual processing and machine translation among
these two poles. "-- although the impression with the very hard word "
is given, if it says in soft language, it can also be read as a
"community" It will see and be clear from the various situations that
Asia exists as a candidate of the third pole in addition to these two
poles. That is, the world triangular structure is formed in the
future, and it is expected that global activity is performed focusing
on these. Although the friendly activity is supported, one is smooth
communication, and the base technology for it is multilingual
processing and machine translation, especially crossing リンガル
information access.

　In order to enable smooth communication in the world, smooth
communication inside a pole is required with the smooth communication
between poles. Then, for Japan, while the smooth communication with
other two poles etc. is secured, in order to achieve the duty as a
leader of Asia, it is necessary to promote the machine translation
between the Asia languages, i.e., technical establishment of crossing
リンガル information access of the Asia language, under the
cooperation with Asian countries.

　The measure for the global standard can be regarded as it being the
remarkable trend of these days. It is thought that the global standard
is effective in making communication in the world smooth on the other
hand. Moreover, it is thought that there is an effect which makes
manufacture and practical use of apparatus efficient. However,
supposing the global standard pushes one system and a view, there may
be a risk of checking establishment and maintenance of friendly
cooperation in the world. The view of building the local standard
which the global standard is built [ standard ] from the local
standard rooted in an area, society, culture, etc., and assimilated
the global standard to an area, society, culture, etc. may be
necessity.

　Activity of industry, economy, and society is becoming globally
borderless now. Respecting culture and a language may seem to persist
in a border about these apparently. However, in fact, crossing リンガ
ル information access establishes the virtual borderless world on the
Internet, and serves as the basis which this makes manage リアルボーダー
レス of physical exchange smoothly. About language, virtual
barrier-free for the communication between different languages is
realized similarly, and this makes real barrier-free realize
simultaneously.

　There is colorful culture with the long history in Asia. Although
the colorful culture rooted in the history is also in Europe, the
colorfulness in Asia can be regarded as it being no match for
European. Generally, culture bears and brings up language and language
has the side in which it contributes to creation of
culture. Therefore, it can be said that respecting culture is also
respecting language. The country and area with colorful culture
promote cooperation, and the technical establishment which a colorful
language is respected [ establishment ] and enables communication
between different languages can be said that it is the indispensable
technology for forming the pole of friendly cooperation. That is, it
could be said that the technology of crossing リンガル information
access of the Asia language is an infrastructure for cooperation in
Asia, and is what must tackle the bottom of international cooperation
as a national enterprise.

　A thing like dispute produced since 尊重 of each culture was not
performed, and since smooth and sufficient communication between
different culture was not performed is seen in great numbers
historically. I can think that the history is also being made now. It
could be said that crossing リンガル information access for the
globalization which avoided such fault, respected each language
although it was probably also required to raise the distributivity of
English as a world common language in order for the world to cooperate
fraternally and to form better society, and clarified the identity of
each culture is one of the most important infrastructures.

　It cannot be said that research of the language of Asia is
progressing enough generally. Although research of Japanese, Korean,
Chinese, etc. has been performed actively, it is necessary to begin
from fundamental research of each language about other Asia languages.
promotion [ support and ] - Also in it, Japan to which research has
been performed most actively many years needs to take leading, and
needs to collect research of the whole Asia language, and research of
the crossing リンガル processing between the Asia languages. And there
is an object for 必s which develops the technology of crossing リンガ
ル information access.

　It seems that individual international cooperation is advanced in
the Republic of Korea or China. The cooperation may deepen quickly
among countries other than Japan, and may spread. In order for there
to be Japan by the member of Asia, Japan takes leading and is
considered that it is necessary to start cooperation immediately. It
seems that international cooperation is promoted also in the U.S. or
Europe. It seems that furthermore, research and development of
Japanese processing tackle actively also in the West. If action is not
taken while Japan has been the present condition, it will be thought
that there is concern set besides the cooperation between Asia and the
West in Asia.

　It is Center of the International Cooperation For Computerization
from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry as a research /
development project of international cooperation concerning [ on the
former and Japan and ] machine translation. (CICC) There is "research
cooperation about the machine-translation system between neighboring
countries (common-name : CICC project)" commissioned to which and
carried out. This of several 1 billion yen was carried out as a
project of a scale in eight years after 1987. It aims at developing
the machine-translation system of the both directions between five
languages of Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Malay, and the Indonesia
language for the purpose of transferring machine-translation
technology of Japan. At this time, it aimed at that the
machine-translation system installed in each country was tied with a
communication circuit, and could perform on-line translation. Into
CICC, research and development founded the machine-translation
research institute, and eight related companies in Japan take part in
the planning, and it was furthered. Moreover, each country install a
research organization as the saucer, respectively, and research and
development were recommended. The electronic dictionary said about 14
billion yen is bet and were developed at Japanese
Electronic-processing Dictionary research institute by instruction of
the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was also utilized for
development of this multilingual machine-translation system. Although
this CICC project got the big result as that time, it remained for
making if there being no character code standard like the JIS code of
a Japanese character in China and a tie at the beginning, the
prototype which research of the language of each country is seldom
progressing, or was extremely restricted by the reason for a thing as
an experiment. In this project, in order to expect the expansion
nature of multilingual processing of the future and to treat the
character code of each country, as a CICC code system treating five
languages, the 4 byte code was adopted and the system was
created. Consideration which does not produce the so-called problem
like Y2K by this was carried out.

　in order to support social cooperation of Asia of the future from
the viewpoint of communication technology -- research and development
of the crossing リンガル information access technology of the Asia
language -- 最 -- it will be one of important subjects Cooperation in
the dense form where the present situation of the world and the
present situation of Asia had a logical jump conventionally is
desired. If it is becoming active, Japan supports these and research
of computer processing of the word of each country of Asia also
performs common research and development on the basis of dense
cooperation, it will be thought that service of crossing リンガル
information access to the Internet which spreads quickly can be
gradually offered now from possible technology.

　The spread of the computer and the Internet of Asia tends to
progress quickly. When the population in Asia carries out from the
fact many [ very ], it will be shown that there is a huge request
socially and the market huge in business will cut down. It is
necessary to fix the infrastructure of crossing リンガル information
access of the Asia language under international cooperation also from
the viewpoint of responding to these.

　IT industry is developing quickly also in Asia. Many of IT
technology is sent from the U.S., and it is thought that it is not
possible that make realization of CLINT there be nothing and Japan
comes to play an advanced role of IT industry, judging from the
U.S. using English of a world common language etc. If the cooperation
with Asia is not made to realize immediately especially, Japan will be
conjectured that there is concern set besides 蚊帳 of international
cooperation.


Section 3 How to Further Research and Development

　In order to further research and development efficiently and
effectively and to make cooperation between researchers into 蜜, it is
necessary to stand on a long viewpoint, to install a research
institute like "CLINT center" in the suitable area in Japan, and to
invite the researcher of each country, and it is necessary to further
research and development also including education. Education needs to
tie up with a university etc. and needs to carry out. Moreover, the
research organization of each country has the object for 必s which
builds a dense cooperation network and furthers research and
development. In order to utilize the newest technology, such as a
researcher of processing of English which is a world common language,
multilingual processing and machine translation, and intellectual
information access, there is an object for 必s which also puts in a
European and American researcher in this cooperation network.

　The main contents of research are development of new CLINT which the
21st century will be expected. The core-subject is multilingual
processing and machine translation. Moreover, the request to the new
application system which did not carry out imagination at present,
either may come out suddenly by rapid social change. It is necessary
to also further research and development of multilingual intellectual
information access based on the highest present technology as a
subject of CLINT further so that such a situation can also be coped
with.

　Whole research and development will be carried out in the long run,
judging from the technical situation attained now. In addition to
multilingual processing and machine translation, there are Web access
as intellectual information access, electronic commerce, information
retrieval, information discovery, information navigation, information
extraction, an information summary, e-commerce, e-mail, e-phone,
etc. in a concrete subject. Moreover, there are research and
development of a human interface as a related subject for these. The
technology with which practical use is presented in these based on the
technology at each time will be started, and the system which is
helpful even if it is not perfect will be developed one by one. Scan
of Web information, multilingual reference of Web, finite transmission
and reception of a document, finite information guidance, etc. are
likely to be comparatively utilizable at an early stage.

　Construction and maintenance of various language data must also be
included in a research subject. They are a text corpus, a dictionary,
a grammar, a knowledge base, etc. Everybody needs to enable it to
share these data under world cooperation as electronic knowledge. In
order to realize world cooperation smoothly at this time, it is also
required to standardize the contents, its description style, etc. of
these data.