Multilingual Thesauri and Ontologies in Cross-Language Retrieval

Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval

Volume

Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

This paper sets forth a framework for the use of thesauri as knowledge bases in cross-language retrieval. It provides a general introduction to thesaurus functions, structure, and construction with particular attention to the problems of multilingual thesauri.