Title
Multilingual adaptive search for digital libraries
Abstract
We describe a framework for Adaptive Multilingual Information Retrieval (AMIR) which allows multilingual resource discovery and delivery using on-the-fly machine translation of documents and queries. Result documents are presented to the user in a contextualised manner. Challenges and affordances of both adaptive and multilingual IR, with a particular focus on digital libraries, are detailed. The framework components are motivated by a series of results from experiments on query logs and documents from The European Library. We conclude that factoring adaptivity and multilinguality aspects into the search process can enhance the user's experience with online digital libraries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_26
TPDL
Keywords
Field
DocType
contextualised manner,digital library,framework component,adaptive multilingual information retrieval,online digital library,multilingual resource discovery,multilingual adaptive search,multilingual ir,factoring adaptivity,multilinguality aspect,european library,information retrieval,digital libraries
World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Query expansion,Computer science,Machine translation,Digital library,Computer Science and Engineering,Affordance,Factoring
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6966
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
12
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Rami Ghorab1698.08
Johannes Leveling240953.36
Séamus Lawless311130.18
Alexander O'connor418414.32
Dong Zhou5697.35
Gareth J. F. Jones62709300.77
Vincent P. Wade747255.35