METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLINGUAL TRANSLATION OF QUERY AND SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL OF MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION ON A COMPUTER NETWORK

A method for translating a query input by the user in the source language into the target language and searching and retrieving web documents in the target language and translating the web documents into the source language. In this invention, the user first inputs a query in a source language through a unit such as the keyboard. This query is then processed by the server at the backend to extract content word from the input query. The next step takes place at the dialectal controller, which is present on the server and performs the function of dialectally standardizing the content word/words so extracted. During this process the user may be prompted for some more so as to refine the search by the user or in case dialectal standardization could not be performed using the initial input query. This is followed by the process of pre-search translation, which comprises of translating the dialectally standardized word into a target language through a translator. This process of translation is followed by inputting the translated word into a search engine in the target language. Such an input yields search results in the target language corresponding to the translated word. The results so obtained are then displayed in the form of site names (URL) which satisfy the search criteria. All the results thus obtained in the target language are then displayed on the user screen. According to the user's needs such results may then be translated back either in whole or in part into the source language.