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Slide 11: Here’s how it works …

03
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by admin on 03 Jan, 2011 in
Slide 11: Here’s how it works …

 1. A Chinese scientist submits a query in Chinese to Multilingual WorldWideScience.org.

2. MWWS.org uses Microsoft to translate the Chinese query into individual languages of source databases (English, French, Portuguese, Russian, etc.) 
3. MWWS.org sends the translated queries to corresponding databases, which search their contents and return results in native languages to MWWS.org.
4. MWWS.org uses Microsoft to translate native language results into Chinese and presents results to the user in relevance-ranked order.

Conversely, an English-speaking user could have a query translated into languages of non-English databases and then get results back in English.

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