This paper introduces the design of multilingual spoken term detection (STD) system using CALLHOME and CALLFRIEND multilingual databases published by Linguistic Data Consortium. For our experiments seven languages namely Arabic, English, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Mandarin and Spanish, are used to train and evaluate the STD system. As the core module of our language general STD system, t...

While the importance of multilingual access to information systems is undoubted, few truly operational systems exist and can serve as examples. This dissertation addresses the issue of what the user expectations and the consequences for system development are in a multilingual information environment. It starts with a general overview over the aspects of multilingual access in digital libraries...

Huge multilingual news articles are reported and disseminated on the Internet. How to extract the key information and save the reading time is a crucial issue. This paper proposes architecture of multilingual news summarizer, including monolingual and multilingual clustering, similarity measure among meaningful units, and presentation of summarization results. Translation among news stories, id...

L2 motivation research has a longstanding monolingual bias. Recently, however, the motivational systems of a multilingual’s different languages have been conceptualized as constituting a multilingual motivational system, and it has been suggested that interactions between the ideal Lx self and the ideal Ly self can lead to the emergence of an ideal multilingual self. While the notion of an idea...

To compete in today's fast-changing business environment , organizations around the globe have undertaken various initiatives to manage their most valuable yet volatile asset: knowledge. Knowledge originates in the minds of individuals [1] and is usually embedded in organizational repositories as well as routines, processes, practices and, norms [2]. Knowledge management refers to the systemati...

We present a transductive learning based framework for multilingual document classification, originally proposed in [7]. A key aspect in our approach is the use of a large-scale multilingual knowledge base, BabelNet, to support the modeling of different language-written documents into a common conceptual space, without requiring any language translation process. Results on real-world multilingu...

In this paper we introduce the Wikyoto Knowledge Editor, the wiki Web-based environment where the multilingual and multicultural community of KYOTO users interacts to maintain and extend, with respect to their particular domain of interest, the background knowledge resources of the KYOTO system, constituting the Multilingual Knowledge Base. KYOTO is a knowledge-driven system for fact mining fro...

In this paper we describe the role of multilingual models in the creation and deployment of unit selection based bilingual speech synthesizers. We first review the definition of a multilingual phonetic alphabet for the simultaneous recognition of up to fifteen languages, and then discuss synthesis specific modifications that allow a more detailed description of the synthesizers’ unit inventorie...

In this paper, we describe an initial stage to construct a multilingual speech corpus in Taiwan with selecting phonetically balanced scripts. It is expected to collect a multilingual speech corpus covering three most frequently used languages in Taiwan, including Taiwanese (Min-nan), Hakka, and Mandarin Chinese. To achieve the objective, constructing a multilingual phonetic alphabet, namely For...

In this paper we present an API for programmatic access to BabelNet – a wide-coverage multilingual lexical knowledge base – and multilingual knowledge-rich Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Our aim is to provide the research community with easy-to-use tools to perform multilingual lexical semantic analysis and foster further research in this direction.