The widespread use of the Internet has made it possible to obtain information from around the world easily and at anytime. The increasing use of optical networks and wireless communications is expected to allow rapid growth in the volume of information carried over the Internet. The widened opportunities for receiving information will raise the demand for obtaining information from around the world in ones native language. To meet such a demand, services have gradually begun to be offered for supporting crosslingual access and searching of information.

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