Proposing a Multi-lingual Translation Scheme Utilizing the Extensible Markup Language XML

The paper proposes a new idea concerning a Multi-lingual translation scheme utilizing the newly evolving Internet tag language, Extensible Markup Language XML. The data description property of XML can be used to create an effective system to translate documents. First of all the XML tagged document of a source language is prepared manually. These tags are not only for the words but also for the grammatical structure, or for example, the phrase structure grammar, so that the analytical process of the translation can be reduced to a level suitable for many Internet applications. Next, XML document type definitions (DTDs) of grammatical structures of different languages are created. In the translation process the source sentences are broken down into pieces and then categorized to the respective DTDs to which they belong. The sentence structure of each language serves as a main structure tree, the broken elements are mapped with the elements of the DTD accordingly, which consequently maps them with the relative elements of the target language structure tree and the appropriate transformations are made. Among the possible transformation patterns, the most appropriate one is selected as an output