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MuchMore provides a framework for integrating and refining existing technologies and developing new approaches to cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) for the medical domain. Existence of very large ontologies of domain concepts and extensive corpora for the medical domain has grounded the work toward refinement, integration and comparison of concept-based retrieval methods and corpora-based approaches. Within the scope of establishing a cross-lingual information retrieval framework, the MuchMore project pursued the following aims: 1. effective combination of approaches and heterogeneous resources and their integrated use for multilingual information access and management, including performance evaluation for realistic information access tasks; 2. research and development concerning the effective use of multilingual concept hierarchies and automated acquisition of domain-specific linguistic resources; 3. demonstration of a cross-lingual information access prototype system for the medical domain that provides access to multilingual information on the basis of combined use of corpus analysis and a domain-ontology.