0023-6152

AA00697606

4605

Unrefereed

0023-6152

AA00697606

In order to obtain agricultural information of Web site in different languages, the multilingual search engine system was developed for farmers of many countries. The Namazu search engine was applied to multilingual search engine method for in-site Web and Google search engine was adopted for WWW respectively. Two subsystems of the multilingual search engine system were designed to solve the language problem. One is the basic terminology translation dictionary for translation of retrieval terms, and the other is Web ASP translation service for translation service for translation of retrieval results and contents. For search of in-site Web and WWW of other country languages, firstly, farmers write a retrieval term in their mother language on the other languages by using the basic terminology translation dictionary. Secondary, farmers can search exactly the retrieval term in the Web site of different languages by search engine system, Namazu or Google. Finally, the retrieval results are translated into their own native languages by using the Web ASP translation service. The farmers could use much information of other country language as well as information of natove kanguage without difficulty of language. Therefore, the amount of information available for agricultural productioni increased remarkably by using the multilingual search engine system.