The Multilingual Web

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

Discovering Parallel Text from the World Wide Web

Parallel corpus is a rich linguistic resource for various multilingual text management tasks, including crosslingual text retrieval, multilingual computational linguistics and multilingual text mining. Constructing a parallel corpus requires effective alignment of parallel documents. In this paper, we develop a parallel page identification system for identifying and aligning parallel documents ...

Multilingual user modeling for personalized re-ranking of multilingual web search results

This paper proposes a novel method to represent user models in a multilingual manner which caters for multilingual Web search users. Furthermore, an evaluation is presented which examines a result re-ranking algorithm that is based upon that model.

Multilingual document mining and navigation using self-organizing maps

One major approach for information finding in the WWW is to navigate through some Web directories and browse them until the goal pages were found. However, such directories are generally constructed manually and may have disadvantages of narrow coverage and inconsistency. Besides, most of existing directories provide only monolingual hierarchies that organized Web pages in terms that a user may...

Multilingual Web Usability Testing - A MUST Methodology

Online marketers and retailers provide websites in various languages through translation in order to penetrate into local markets. Translation causes issues in terms of ease of navigation for the user and hence affecting the usability of these websites. Usability testing is a technique to refine the website by tracing problems in it, with the help of experiments, involving real users. The stand...

Interactive Multilingual Web Applications with Grammatical Framework

We present an approach to multilingual web content based on multilingual grammars and syntax editing for a controlled language. Content can be edited in any supported language and it is automatically kept within a controlled language fragment. We have implemented a web-based syntax editor for Grammatical Framework (GF) grammars which allows both direct abstract syntax tree manipulation and text...