Multilingual Access and Services for Digital Collections

This unique guide offers you a thorough understanding of multilingual information access (MLIA) and services and related concepts, such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing.

• Integrates useful knowledge from multiple disciplines such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing for multilingual information access

• Provides practical knowledge and technologies you can understand and apply in your work

• Shows you how to evaluate machine translation services and how to build multilingual services for digital libraries

• Acts as both a professional guide and a textbook or reference book for LIS courses

• Features comprehensive analysis of information processing tools and resources that will benefit corporate information professionals who deal with international customers