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Multilingual Information Exchange

Workshop

Thursday 27, Jan 2005.

Amari Watergate Hotel

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AGENDA

14.00 – 14.10 Open talk byJohanes Keizer.

14.10 – 14.30 Text Mining bySeishi Ninomiya.

14.30 – 15.30 Life Demo from Collaborative Work by Asanee & Team.

15.30 – 16.00 Presentation by FAO.

16.00 – 17.15 Country Reports.

17.15 – 17.30 Summing Up & Next Step.

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Live Demo

Agricultural Knowledge Portal

and

Web based Translation

Asanee & Team

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Acknowledgement

• ThaiAGRIS Center

• All members of Multilingual

• FAO

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http://ml-wg.cpe.ku.ac.th

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Benefits

Knowledge sharing as

One Stop Service

Better living condition of Better living condition of AgricultureAgriculture

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Background from Part 1

2004 AFITA/WCCA : Supporting Multilinguality in Agricultural Information Acc

ess in August 9, 2004

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Towards the Knowledge Management without

Language Barrier

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Motivation

– Information Overload, especially, unstructured electronic articles and

reports – Language barriers

– Thailand is the Agriculture-based Country

Knowledge Management for Multilingual Agricultural Information Management

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Agricultural Knowledge Management without Language Barrier

Related Projects

1. Multilingual Dictionary

2. Ontology Construction and Maintenance System

3. Knowledge Portal• Information Extraction• Summarization• Knowledge Discovery

4. Knowledge Tracking

5. Machine translation

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IntelligentSearch Engine

Knowledge Portal Processing

WWW

Unstructured,Semi-structured,

StructuredDocument

Meta DataAnnotation tools

KnowledgeStructure

Thai AGRISDocumentWarehouse

Agricultural Information Bases

Real-World Ontology

Ontology Task Oriented

Ontology

MultilingualDictionary

MT KT

System Architecture

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IntelligentSearch Engine

Knowledge Portal Processing

WWW

Unstructured,Semi-structured,

StructuredDocument

Meta DataAnnotation tools

KnowledgeStructure

Thai AGRISDocumentWarehouse

Agricultural Information Bases

Real-World Ontology

Ontology Task Oriented

Ontology

MultilingualDictionary

MT KT

System Architecture

Rice

Diseases&How to protect?

How to plant in

the winter?

Follow up the price

etc.

Yield

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Knowledge Portal

Document ImageProcessing

Web Spider

Internet

Internet

ImageDocument

ElectronicDocument

• Multi Source• Multi Format• Multi Standard

Portal Service • IE• KD• TS• KT• MT

• NLP technique• Automatic Metadata• Document Indexing• Image Indexing• Automatic RDF generation

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Contribution

Plant DiseaseExpert System KB

Question?

Answer.Farmer

Solvingproblem

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Information Extraction

Knowledge Extraction

Information Interface

OntologyReasoning

Summarizing

Tracking

Translation

Structure Knowledge

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www. เช��อรา

Rdf Database

Periodic Web browser

www ข่ าว.

www. ร�ปภาพื

www. งานเผยแพืร

Multi-websites in RDF

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Eng_name

Rice

http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp1/data/03/lab1k53.htm#

โรคใบจุ�ดสี�น��าตาล

http://yasothon.doae.go.th/new_ya16

.gif#ร�ปข่!าว

http://www.fao.or.th/Publications/publications.htm

#รวมงานว#จุ$ย

http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2004/50724/index.html#

ข่!าว

http://www.fao.or.th/default.htm

#หน วยงานที่�'เกี่�'ยวข่!อง

http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp1/data/03/nrice513.jpg

Brown spot disease

Helminthosporium oryzae

http://www.doa.go.th/rri/tech/images/m3_6/BS/3.jpg

Fungi

Report of the regional consultation on gender

dimensions in Asian rice

http://www.fao.or.th/Publications/RAP_2004-13.pdf

2004

Vietnamese and Chinese photographers win global

photo contest on rice

23 September 2004

Rome

http://www.fao.org/newsroom/common/ecg/50724_en_1prize190.jpg

NEWS

Title Picture

Picture

cause

Type

PictureDisease

PictureTitle

Picture

Publication year

file

Location

Datehttp://203.185.131.13/research/showdetail.php?id=2166#ผ�!แต ง

http://158.108.200.11/ppath/personal/supat.jpg

Picture

Kasetsart

Mr.  Supat    Attathom

Name

WorkPlaceAuthor

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Roles of Ontology in other tasks

Title=Ginger

Domain=Plant

C F A D B E

Title=Cabbage Title=Cucumber

…Tracking by Domain, Title

Author = KU

C F A D B E

…

Title=Ginger Title=Cabbage Title=Cucumber

Tracking by Author, Title

C F

A

D

B E

Document

Ontology

KW. Tracking Process

• Multi-viewpoint Knowledge Tracking

Title=Cabbage

A D

Author=Doae Author=KU

…Tracking by Title, Author

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• Progress from AFITA2004 to APAN2005

• Application on ML-Dictionary.

Country Report and Activity from Thailand : Multilingual Dictionary Accessing

Multiligual Group

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The progress from AFITA2004 to APAN2005

• Background – Multi-Lingual Working Group (ML-WG)– The first step on the collaboration under the Asia Pacific

Advanced Network project.– Established during the APAN 2003 conference on 24th

January at Fukuoka, Japan.– Aim to developing the multilingual Agricultural Ontology

service and its applications over the Asia Pacific.– Thank you for good collaborations from our partner

countries

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Activities

• Collect 304 vocabularies from the FAO Statistics website – http://www.fao.org/rice2004/en/aboutrice.htm

http://www.fao.org/rice2004/en/world.htmhttp://www.fao.org/rice2004/en/p17.htm

in order to test the English to Multi-lingual Machine Translation Software

• Collect 151 vocabularies for Thai to English Machine Active Reading Translation–  http://www.dit.go.th/AgriculturalGoods.htm

Country Report and Activity from Thailand : Multilingual Dictionary Accessing

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Current Status of ML-Dictionary

LanguageLanguage AFITA 2004AFITA 2004 APAN 2005APAN 2005

English 23,268 23,379

Thai 23,095 23,095

French 1,482 1,482

Vietnamese 684 684

Japanese 108 108

Bangladeah 123 123

Bahasa Indonesian 19 19

*Korean - 149

*Malaysian - 235

Chinese, Italian and Tagalog

0 0

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http://ml-wg.cpe.ku.ac.th

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http://ml-wg.cpe.ku.ac.th

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http://ml-wg.cpe.ku.ac.th

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Application on ML-Dictionary

• Machine Active ReadingMachine Active Reading

• Webpage TranslationWebpage Translation

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The End.

Thank you for your collaboration and attention.

Country Report and Activity from Thailand : Multilingual Dictionary Accessing

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Demo

Agricultural Knowledge Portal

With

Life Demo

Asanee & Team

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Task-Oriented Ontology about Plant

Plant

Cause

Symptom

Planting

Price

. . .

specific relations(e.g. research, hasPlanting) concept

Treatment

Disease

Organization

resume

Researcher

Plant

Rice

Maize

Field crops

Ornamental plants

Fruit crops

Vegetable crops

IS-A relationsconcept

Sesame

กข 1 กข 2 กข 3instances

. . .

Diseases

Viroses

Fungal diseases

Microorganism diseases

Bacterioses

IS-A relationsconcept

blast disease

brown spot disease

instances

. . .

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Subject Predicate Object.

http://kanchanapisek.or.th/

kp1/data/03/lab1k53.htm#โรคใบจุ�ดสี�น��าตาล

Cause Helminthosporium oryzae

http://kanchanapisek.or.th/

kp1/data/03/lab1k53.htm#โรคใบจุ�ดสี�น��าตาล

Eng_name Brown spot disease

http://kanchanapisek.or.th/

kp1/data/03/lab1k53.htm#โรคใบจุ�ดสี�น��าตาล

Picture http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp1/data/03/nrice513.jpg

Fungi Type Helminthosporium oryzae

Helminthosporium oryzae Picture http://www.doa.go.th/rri/tech/images/m3_6/BS/3.jpg