Timeline Entry - Future
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2004: Thanks to advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) techniques, spearheaded by research and development in information retrieval methodologies coordinated through the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and similar organizations, multilingual text searches and displays are now widely available to international users of Internet resources.
Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has been developed to aid in the transliteration and retrieval of information from one language to another. Thus, a query in Japanese may be posed to a database which is composed in English, and an answer in Japanese returned. The need for retrieving documents in languages other than those supported by a query system has been made relevant by the exponentially increasing volume of global exchanges via the Internet. CLIR development emphasis has been placed on modality, language, encoding and indexing on foreign language query constructs. In particular, advances by ACL and other groups focused on matching strategies as a central component of successful CLIR systems.
Resources:
For a comprehensive webography and bibliography on CLIR, see the Cross-Language Information Retrieval Resources Web site.
Oard, Douglas W. and Anne R. Kiekema. "Cross-Language Information Retrieval." Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 33 (1998): 223-256.
See the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2000 Conference home page and related links for a fascinating look of what is being developed and what the future holds.
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Susan Laura Lugo
GSLIS MS Candidate