U.S. Government U.S. Government Language RequirementsLanguage Requirements

7 September 20007 September 2000

Everette JordanEverette Jordan

Department of DefenseDepartment of Defense

AJjord@fggm.osis.govAJjord@fggm.osis.gov

(301) 688-7198(301) 688-7198

Need for Language Need for Language TechnologyTechnology

Over 30,000 language professionals in the U.S. Over 30,000 language professionals in the U.S. governmentgovernment– Many more at state and local levelsMany more at state and local levels

Extensive material in foreign language, often in legacy Extensive material in foreign language, often in legacy formats/encodingsformats/encodings– More than 50 percent of Library of Congress is non-EnglishMore than 50 percent of Library of Congress is non-English– Many kinds of applicationsMany kinds of applications

Assimilation and disseminationAssimilation and dissemination Extensive collaborationExtensive collaboration

Need for large number of languagesNeed for large number of languages– Disaster relief (e.g., Haiti) unpredicatableDisaster relief (e.g., Haiti) unpredicatable– Extensive multinational effortsExtensive multinational efforts– Language list now being reviewedLanguage list now being reviewed– Short list as follows:Short list as follows:

U.S. Government U.S. Government LanguagesLanguages

(List being updated)(List being updated)

Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Ayamara Azerbaijani Bangla Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish

Dari Dutch English Estonian Farsi Finnish French Georgian German Greek Guarani Haitian Creole Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese

Languages Languages (Continued)(Continued)

Kazakh Khmer/Cambodian Kinyarwanda Kirundi Korean Kurdish Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Pashto Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian

Serbian Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Thai Tibetan Tigrigna Turkish Ukranian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese

TodayToday

Translators and limited Machine Translation

Analyst

Archives

Identify language,content, and importance

Integrated Collaborative Translation Space with Shared Tools

Fast RoutingTranslated and/or Tagged

Expert

Types of Technology Types of Technology NeededNeeded

BrowsersBrowsers Text ProcessorsText Processors Web Page ToolsWeb Page Tools OCROCR MTMT Search EnginesSearch Engines Translation Translation

ManagersManagers Language LearningLanguage Learning

DictionariesDictionaries ThesauriThesauri Developers KitsDevelopers Kits Info Extraction & Info Extraction &

SummarizationSummarization Knowledge Knowledge

ManagementManagement VisualizationVisualization OtherOther

Special RequirementsSpecial Requirements UnicodeUnicode UTF 8UTF 8 Other major code setsOther major code sets Code set conversions Code set conversions

(extensible)(extensible) Language and Language and

encoding IDencoding ID Mixed languagesMixed languages

– Per pagePer page– Per databasePer database

English interfacesEnglish interfaces English sys adminEnglish sys admin

Work with Microsoft Work with Microsoft and/or Sun (non-and/or Sun (non-localized)localized)

Work well with other Work well with other COTS applicationsCOTS applications

Easy trainingEasy training Good U.S. supportGood U.S. support Comply with W3C Comply with W3C

guidelines for guidelines for accessibilityaccessibility

Enable easy Enable easy extensibility by extensibility by governmentgovernment