Indexing and retrieving images in a multilingual world

Authors

  • Elaine Menard Montreal, Quebec, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7152/nasko.v1i1.12839

Abstract

The Internet constitutes a vast universe of knowledge and human culture, allowing the dissemination of ideas and information without borders. The Web also became an important media for the diffusion of multilingual resources. However, linguistic differences still form a major obstacle to scientific, cultural, and educational exchange. With the ever increasing size of the Web and the availability of more and more documents in various languages, this problem becomes all the more pervasive. Besides this linguistic diversity, a multitude of databases and collections now contain documents in various formats, which may also adversely affect the retrieval process.

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Published

2011-11-04