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.

Written for digital library developers, library and information science graduate students, and information professionals serving international information users, this book defines multilingual information access (MLIA) and discusses the importance of enabling international users to access digital collections. Based on a systematic review of the research and development carried out on cross-language information retrieval, machine translation, and case studies of current multilingual digital libraries, the author clearly explains what you need to know about technologies for building MLIA function for digital collections.

The book leads you through an examination of Internet language services and tools that are useful for developing multilingual digital libraries and for assisting international users in accessing digital resources. Content is further clarified by two research projects that are presented to demonstrate the application of technologies used to build MLIA functions and multilingual user interfaces. The book concludes with possible strategies for using Internet language services and tools to implement MLIA function for digital collections.

List of contents

CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgments

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

Acronym List
Glossary
Index

About the author

Jiangping Chen, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas (UNT).

Product details

• Authors: Jiangping Chen, Chen Jiangping
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9781440839542
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-3954-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries