A System for building a full-text multilingual database accessible from any WWW browser

Abstract

　Along with the expansion of the Internet the world-wide network has become a reality and informations from every country and in every language are shared. These informations are written in various languages and therefore multilingual display and retrieval possibilities are indispensable functions. According to this background, we believe that a database allowing casual users to retrieve this kind of information is necessary. This paper persents a multilingual full-text database accessible from any WWW browser and allowing display and input without any constraints related to the language environment of the user.