Although Associate Professor Brijesh Verma doesn't have his own cyber twin he is playing a major role in the global distribution of the artificial cloning technology.A CQUniversity researcher has allowed a Queensland-based cyber clone website to extend their reach across the globe.

Associate Professor Brijesh Verma has developed an intelligent language classifier for the hugely successful MyCyberTwin system which will address communication problems due to language differences.

Put simply, Verma's software will translate conversations by the cyber twins and their cyber friends so that questions can be asked and answers given in the operator's own language.

MyCyberTwin (http://www.mycybertwin.com/) allows just about anyone to create an online clone of themselves to communicate with others via social networks like MySpace and dating sites and even has found its niche in corporate sites.

President George Bush and Paris Hilton have clones, while NASA recently used MyCyberTwin to create a virtual personality to keep the public up to date with its latest mission to Mars.

The MyCyberTwin technology allows people to choose a personality base and then provide as much detail to the system as they want to. A clone is then created and can communicate just as the real you would.

Assoc. Prof. Verma's software addition has been implemented in Java programming language which allows it to easily incorporate into the MyCyberTwin system.

"The software accepts a sentence as an input written in English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Spanish and it outputs the confidence values," Assoc. Prof. Verma explained.

"The new language can be easily added to the classifier. The classifier also outputs segments of input sentence and language confidence values for multilingual sentences such as "My name is 브리제쉬 버마 in Korean language".

The classifier has been tested by MyCyberTwin and it produces accuracy over 98% which satisfies company's requirement.

MyCyberTwin's Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer Dr John Zakos says "we are impressed with the accuracy produced by the language classifier developed at CQUniversity.

"The language classifier has proven to be a very useful component that we could easily integrate into our existing platform. This classifier extends our system's language handling capabilities and supports our plan to offer MyCyberTwin products in foreign markets."

In addition to MyCyberTwin's application, the developed language classifier has many other real world applications such as translation of online multilingual documents and conversion of multilingual handwritten documents into text files.