Multilingual Resources (WP2)
The goal of this work package is provide the multilingual resources enabling effective cross language search over multiple digital libraries. The main goal of the WP is therefore to adapt methods which continuously support multilingual dictionary enrichment on the basis of the contents of the digital collections and user queries.
The objectives will be achieved by implementing the following actions:
- Assessment of the multilanguage lexicons available to technical providers
- Definition of the structure and programmatic interfaces for multilingual lexical access.
- Log analysis and language identification system.
- Component for the computation of user based translation probability (semantic web vectors methodology).
Work package leader:
Xerox Research Centre Europe
Deliverables:
- D 2.1. Assessment of available lexica: M3 [restricted]
- D 2.2. Definition of programmatic interfaces (and their implementation) for multilingual access: M6 [public report]
- D 2.3. Implementation and testing of cross-lingual access component: M12 [confidential]
- D 2.4. Implementation and testing of the user based translation enrichment component: M15 [confidential]



