Multilingual on-line dictionary breaking the language barriers in the advent of open markets

The furniture manufacturing is one of the biggest industries in the world employing the largest number of persons and playing an important role in worldwide economics. In the advent of open markets and globalization, the cultural barrier presented by language can challenge business success. A multilingual dictionary provides an important service for the industry, making easier the communication between trades in different speaking regions. The online dictionary is the support for multilingual repository of terms and related lexical mechanisms, necessary for a correct understanding and translation between different languages. It represents a harmonization effort in nomenclature and terminologies for all actors of disperse professional areas. New system architectures concepts are in the foundation of the work hereby presented, like the emerging Web-services technology that realizes the openness of the solution, on four-tier software architecture. Dictionary has been developed in the scope of IMS SMART-fm project and accessible via http://www.smart-fm.funstep.org/.