MULINEX: Multilingual Indexing, Navigation and Editing Extensions for the World-Wide Web

Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval

Volume

Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium

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This paper gives an overview of the project MULINEX, which is a "leading-edge application project" fimded in the Telematics Application Programme (Language Engineering Sector) of the European Union. The goal of the project is the development of a set of tools to allow cross-language text retrieval for the WWW, concept-based indexing, navigation tools and webiste management facilities for multilingual WWW sites. The project takes a usercentered approach in which the user needs drive the development activities and set the research agenda.