Multilingual Federated Searching Across Heterogeneous Collections
D-Lib MagazinePublished 1 September 1998Open access
James Powell, Edward A. Fox
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A scalable system for searching heterogeneous multilingual collections on the World Wide Web is described, including a markup language for describing the characteristics of a search engine and its interface, and a protocol for requesting word translations between languages.
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This article describes a scalable system for searching heterogeneous multilingual collections on the World Wide Web. It details a markup language for describing the characteristics of a search engine and its interface, and a protocol for requesting word translations between languages.
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Computer Science
Querying across languages
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