Multilingual Access and Services for Digital Collections

This unique guide offers you a thorough understanding of multilingual information access (MLIA) and services and related concepts, such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing.

• Integrates useful knowledge from multiple disciplines such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing for multilingual information access
• Provides practical knowledge and technologies you can understand and apply in your work
• Shows you how to evaluate machine translation services and how to build multilingual services for digital libraries
• Acts as both a professional guide and a textbook or reference book for LIS courses
• Features comprehensive analysis of information processing tools and resources that will benefit corporate information professionals who deal with international customers

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Chapter 3 Machine Translation Research and Practice
Chapter 4 Machine Translation for Digital Collections
Chapter 5 Multilingual Systems and Interfaces
Chapter 6 Beyond Retrieval: Knowledge Discovery and Future Directions
Chapter 7 Related Internet Language Resources and Tools