TRILINGUAL IT GLOSSARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

We have a limited number of Trilingual (Sinhala, Tamil and English) web based Dictionaries. Mostly, these Dictionaries also do not contain proper Sinhala and Tamil translations of the particular all English IT technical Terms. Therefore, these web based “Trilingual IT Terms Management System” is more useful not only for the students and teachers but also for the State and non-state officers to carry out the government policy (In Sri Lanka, the national policy of the Government is to develop first language (mother tongue), second language (Sinhala or Tamil) and the international linking language English at the same time). The system allows different tasks for different users. They are Administrator and registered user, who can log the system as different user roles to perform their functions separately. Administrator has all privileges of the system. Registered users can search, vote, comment and listen to the particular term for already available in the database. They can suggest the new term or different meaning of the already available term. They can view the suggestion already available in the system and can vote, comment the particular suggestion. They can add their feedback. Registered users can comment and view others comments for the particular forum already created by the administrator. Administrator can upload the CSV file (bulk term addition) and add the new terms (single term addition). Administrator can view the users‟ suggestion (term) with the Sinhala & Tamil meaning. If the particular suggestion is good then the administrator automatically adds the term in to the database. Administrator can read and understand the user‟s feedback and according to their feedback administrator can add new terms. Administrator can view the user‟s details and can change the „user type‟ (Secondary Admin/ User). Administrator can remove and update the particular term already available in the database. Administrator can create a new forum session. All the functional, non-functional and system requirements of the system were properly analyzed. All the critical functionalities have been thoroughly tested using black box and white box testing. The system is developed open source PHP programming language and MySQL has been used as the database language. CSS, Html, Java Script are some other technologies used to develop this system.