Supporting Search in a Multilingual World

21 июня 2007 г. (четверг), 17:00-18:30

Douglas W. Oard (http://www.glue.umd.edu/~oard/)
Associate Dean for Research
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland, USA

Title:

Supporting Search in a Multilingual World

Abstract:

The Internet is a vast multilingual commons, and the past decade has seen a dramatic acceleration of research on the construction of systems to support multilingual information access. In this talk, I will describe the key advances in cross-language information retrieval and machine translation that now enable us to build systems that span language barriers to some degree for some purposes. With that as background, I will then step back and look at the problem from the perspective of an application developer to identify critical gaps in the present technology that could inhibit adoption in Web and enterprise search applications.

About the Speaker:

Douglas Oard is Associate Dean for Research at the College of Information Studies of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he holds joint appointments as Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies and in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his research interests center around the use of emerging technologies to support information seeking by end users. Dr. Oard's recent work has focused on interactive techniques for cross-language information retrieval, searching conversational media, and leveraging observable behavior to improve user modeling. Additional information is available at http://www.glue.umd.edu/~oard/.

Язык - английский.

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