Topic:
Multilingual Information Access
Abstract:
The global information society has
radically changed the way in which knowledge is acquired, disseminated and exchanged.
Users of internationally distributed networks need to be able to find, retrieve
and understand relevant information in whatever language and form it may have
been stored. For this reason, much attention has been given over the past few
years to the study and development of tools and technologies for multilingual
information access (MLIA). This is a complex, multidisciplinary area in which
methodologies and tools developed in the fields of information retrieval and
natural language processing converge. Two main sectors are involved: multiple
language recognition, manipulation and display; cross-language search and
retrieval. The talk will provide an overview of the main issues of interest in
both these areas. Topics covered include: multilingual document indexing,
specific requirements of particular languages and scripts, techniques for
cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), resources, and new directions.
Recommended Reading:
- Gey, Fredric C., Kando, Noriko, Lin,
Chin-Yew, Peters, Carol (2006). New Directions in Multilingual Information
Access, SIGIR Forum, Workshop Report.
·
Gey,
Fredric C., Kando, Noriko, Peters, Carol (2005). Cross-Language Information
Retrieval: the Way Ahead, Information Processing and Management, Vol.41(3),
pp415-431.
·
PETERS,
C., Sheridan, P. (2001). "Multilingual Information Access". In M.
Agosti, F. Crestani, G. Pasi (eds.) "Lectures
on Information Retrieval", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1980, Springer Verlag, pp51-80.
·
Jones,
G.J. Multilingual/Multimedia Information Retrieval in C. Peters (ed.)
State-of-the-Art, Del.1.1 MultiMatch project – see http://www.multimatch.eu
Bio:
Carol Peters is employed by the Institute for Information Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Pisa. Her current research activities are focused on the development of multilingual access mechanisms for digital libraries and evaluation methodologies for cross-language information retrieval systems. She is member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Digital Libraries and ERCIM News, the journal of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics. Since 2000, she has coordinated the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), which promotes research into multilingual information access system development and organizes annual evaluation campaigns. CLEF is an activity of the DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries.
E-mail: Carol.Peters@isti.cnr.it
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