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Multilingual access to full text databases; Acces multilingue aux bases de donnees en texte integral

Abstract

Many full text databases are available in only one language, or more, they may contain documents in different languages. Even if the user is able to understand the language of the documents in the database, it could be easier for him to express his need in his own language. For the case of databases containing documents in different languages, it is more simple to formulate the query in one language only and to retrieve documents in different languages. This paper present the developments and the first experiments of multilingual search, applied to french-english pair, for text data in nuclear field, based on the system SPIRIT. After reminding the general problems of full text databases search by queries formulated in natural language, we present the methods used to reformulate the queries and show how they can be expanded for multilingual search. The first results on data in nuclear field are presented (AFCEN norms and INIS abstracts). 4 refs.
Authors:
Fluhr, C; Radwan, K [1] 
  1. Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucleaires (INSTN), Centre d`Etudes de Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Publication Date:
May 01, 1990
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
IAEA-SM-317/16; CONF-900550-
Reference Number:
SCA: 990100; 990300; PA: AIX-26:048069; EDB-95:080684; ERA-20:017293; NTS-96:000149; SN: 95001395748
Resource Relation:
Conference: International symposium on the future of scientific, technological and industrial information services, Leningrad (USSR), 28-31 May 1990; Other Information: PBD: May 1990
Subject:
99 MATHEMATICS, COMPUTERS, INFORMATION SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT, LAW, MISCELLANEOUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ON-LINE SYSTEMS; DATA BASE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INIS; STANDARDIZED TERMINOLOGY
OSTI ID:
49886
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 75 - Paris (France); United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
French
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE95628893; TRN: XA9538973048069
Availability:
INIS; OSTI as DE95628893
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
11 p.
Announcement Date:
Jun 12, 1995

Citation Formats

Fluhr, C, and Radwan, K. Multilingual access to full text databases; Acces multilingue aux bases de donnees en texte integral. IAEA: N. p., 1990. Web.
Fluhr, C, & Radwan, K. Multilingual access to full text databases; Acces multilingue aux bases de donnees en texte integral. IAEA.
Fluhr, C, and Radwan, K. 1990. "Multilingual access to full text databases; Acces multilingue aux bases de donnees en texte integral." IAEA.
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title = {Multilingual access to full text databases; Acces multilingue aux bases de donnees en texte integral}
author = {Fluhr, C, and Radwan, K}
abstractNote = {Many full text databases are available in only one language, or more, they may contain documents in different languages. Even if the user is able to understand the language of the documents in the database, it could be easier for him to express his need in his own language. For the case of databases containing documents in different languages, it is more simple to formulate the query in one language only and to retrieve documents in different languages. This paper present the developments and the first experiments of multilingual search, applied to french-english pair, for text data in nuclear field, based on the system SPIRIT. After reminding the general problems of full text databases search by queries formulated in natural language, we present the methods used to reformulate the queries and show how they can be expanded for multilingual search. The first results on data in nuclear field are presented (AFCEN norms and INIS abstracts). 4 refs.}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1990}
month = {May}
}