Publication
MULINEX: Multilingual Web Search and Navigation
Joanne Capstick; Abdel Kader Diagne; Gregor Erbach; Hans Uszkoreit
In: Proceedings of the 14th Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT 14). Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval. Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT), December 7-8, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, 1998.
Abstract
MULINEX is a multilingual search engine for the WWW. During the phase of document gathering, the system extracts information about documents by making use of language identification, thematic classification and automatic summarisation. In the search phase, the users' query terms are translated in order to enable search in different languages. Search results are presented with a summary and information about the language and thematic categories to which the document belongs. Summaries and documents are translated on demand by making use of the LOGOS machine translation system. The system is to be deployed in the online services of Bertelsmann Telemedia and Grolier Interactive Europe, and supports French, German and English. The current MULINEX prototype is the first system for translingual information access integrating retrieval, summarisation and translation.