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Cross‐language information access to multilingual collections on the internet

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  • Guo‐Wei Bian
  • Hsin‐Hsi Chen

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Language barrier is the major problem that people face in searching for, retrieving, and understanding multilingual collections on the Internet. This paper deals with query translation and document translation in a Chinese‐English information retrieval system called MTIR. Bilingual dictionary and monolingual corpus‐based approaches are adopted to select suitable translated query terms. A machine transliteration algorithm is introduced to resolve proper name searching. We consider several design issues for document translation, including which material is translated, what roles the HTML tags play in translation, what the tradeoff is between the speed performance and the translation performance, and what form the translated result is presented in. About 100,000 Web pages translated in the last four months of 1997 are used for quantitative study of online and real‐time Web page translation.

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  • Guo‐Wei Bian & Hsin‐Hsi Chen, 2000. "Cross‐language information access to multilingual collections on the internet," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 51(3), pages 281-296.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:51:y:2000:i:3:p:281-296
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:33.0.CO;2-8
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    1. Mike Thelwall & Rong Tang, 2003. "Disciplinary and linguistic considerations for academic Web linking: An exploratory hyperlink mediated study with Mainland China and Taiwan," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 58(1), pages 155-181, September.

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