This paper describes a system for rapidly retargetable interactive translingual retrieval. Basic functionality can be achieved for a new document language in a single day, and further improvements require only a relatively modest additional investment. We applied the techniquesfirst to searchChinese collections using English queries, and have successfully added French, German, and Italian docum...

<p>«NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS» aktualema is reviewed in the article as an instance of translingual communication, subject which worldwide, and not only national, heritage.</p>

PanLex is a lemmatic translation resource which combines a large number of translation dictionaries and other translingual lexical resources. It currently covers 1353 language varieties and 12M expressions, but aims to cover all languages and up to 350M expressions. This paper describes the resource and current applications of it, as well as lextract, a new effort to expand the coverage of PanL...