1. Seminar on Multilingual Web Search and Navigation Presentation by Manoj Dhage MTech 1 st Year Guide Dr. D. Samanta.

2. Contents of seminar 1. Introduction 2. Prototype Multilingual Web Search Engine MULINEX 3. Support for Multilingual Search in Other Search Engines 4. Multilingual Web Navigation

3. Introduction 1. What is Multilingual Web Search? 2. Types of Multilingual Web Search 3. Character Representations

4. Basic Steps in Single Language Search 1. Document Gathering 2. Indexing 3. Querying and Retrieval

5. Basic Steps in Multilingual Search 1. Document Gathering 2. Language Identification 3. Indexing 4. Querying and Retrieval 5. Automatic Translation

6. Architecture of MULINEX Ref:http://mulinex.dfki.de

7. Document Acquisition 1. Gathering Documents 2. Document Analysis 3. Indexing

8. continued … Ref:http://mulinex.dfki.de

9. Search and Navigation 1. Query Translation ExampleFAIR-schön beautiful, lovely hübsch pretty, nice

10. continued …. 1. + Must include 2. - Must not include 3. ! Must not translate 4. "..." phrase

11. Support for multilingual search in other search engines 1. Google- 2. Alltheweb-

12. Cross Language Query

13. Automatic Languation Translation

14. Cross Language Query

15. Multilingual Navigation 1. Character Representation 2. LTR and RTL 3. Entrance Page of a Website 4. Domain name should be in English

16. Conclusion Enabling multilingualism in the search process is the need of the hour. Search process should be independent of the language of the underlying literature. As stemming technology works fine with English, stemmers for other languages also should be developed. Efficient storage format for multilingual documents should be developed to handle RTL and LTR search efficiently.

17. References 1. 1. Joanne Capstick, Abdel Kader Diagne, MULINEX: Multilingual Web Search and Navigation. 2. 2. David A. Hull, Gregory Grefenstette, Querying Across Languages: A Dictionary- Based Approach. 3. 3. Spectrum Business Support L., Full Text Search in Multilingual documents 4. 4. www.unicode.org www.unicode.org 5. 5. www.google.com www.google.com 6. 6. www.alltheweb.com www.alltheweb.com 7. 7. mulinex.dfki.de