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

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

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

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

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

Architecture of MULINEX Ref:

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

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

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

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

Cross Language Query

Automatic Languation Translation

Cross Language Query

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

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.

References Joanne Capstick, Abdel Kader Diagne, MULINEX: Multilingual Web Search and Navigation David A. Hull, Gregory Grefenstette, Querying Across Languages: A Dictionary- Based Approach Spectrum Business Support L., Full Text Search in Multilingual documents mulinex.dfki.de