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Fig. 2: Basic architecture. Click on image for full-size display.
The architecture is divided into three different components.
- Translation Service- This service runs on the Sametime server and utilizes the real-time infrastructure not only making it work as the other existing Sametime service, such as awareness service, community service and IM service, but also takes advantage of the asynchronous communication concept of event-based programming to reduce the impact on performance caused by MT.
- Adaptors- These were applied to encapsulate incompatible interfaces provided by numerous MT products. Using these pluggable adaptors, a modular framework was developed with a "plug-and-play" architecture for assembling MT systems with Translation Service. Translation Service can send those requests to preferred MT products according to the translation language pair without doing any further processes for specific MT products.
- Translation Modular- Because current MT systems are typically available for a more limited set of language directions, many kinds of MT products are often deployed in real environments to meet the requirement of large language coverage. However, each MT product varies largely which brings a lot of confusion to the developer. In the solution, web-service technology was used to provide a self-describing, discoverable and standardized translation modular.
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