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A Multilingual Approach to Multilingual Information Retrieval

2003
Multilingual IR is usually carried out by first performing cross-language IR on separate collections, each for a language. Once a set of answers has been found in each language, all the sets are merged to produce a unique answer list. In our experiments of CLEF2002, we propose a truly multilingual approach in which the documents in different languages ...
Jian-Yun Nie, Fuman Jin
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Multilingual Pilgrimages

2020
This chapter discusses how Ismaël Ferroukhi's Le Grand Voyage showcased language and trans-Mediterranean cultural identity. Le Grand Voyage featured what it means to be Moroccan in France while characterizing the Mediterranean by its polarity of voices and spaces.
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Challenges for a multilingual wordnet

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012
Wordnets have been created in many languages, revealing both their lexical commonalities and diversity. The next challenge is to make multilingual wordnets fully interoperable. The EuroWordNet experience revealed the shortcomings of an interlingua based on a natural language.
Christiane Fellbaum, Piek Vossen
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Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

2012
The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center “Multilingualism” after twelve years of successful research.
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Researching Multilingualism and Multilingual Identities

2005
In order to ground the study on which this book is based, this first chapter reviews some relevant literature on bilingualism and multilingualism from the fields of linguistics. Issues of language acquisition more generally are touched on, as well as some of the ongoing questions of the relationship between language, thought and experience.
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Multilingual weighted codebooks

2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2008
In this paper we present an approach for speech recognition of multiple languages with constrained resources on embedded devices. Examples of such systems are navigation systems, mobile phones and MP3 players. Speech recognizers on such systems are typically to-date semi-continuous speech recognizers, which are based on vector quantization.
BRUECKNER RAYMOND, RAAB MARTIN, GRUHN RAINER   +2 more
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A multilingual TÊX

2005
This paper discusses a modification to TEX that allows for multilingual hyphenation on a paragraph by paragraph basis using standard TEX fonts. Although this is a sufficient for most applications, it does not of itself solve spacing, linguistically unique characters, text input, nor multilingual message problems.
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Reflections on multilingual Sydney in a multilingual world

2018
In this afterword, the authors reflect on the themes and approaches to research on multilingual Sydney that have emerged in the book. Phil Benson does so from his perspective as a Sydney-based co-editor of the book. Kathleen Heugh contributes her reflections from another Australian multilingual city, Adelaide, and from the perspective of discussions of
Kathleen Heugh, Phil Benson
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Multilingualism at school and multilingual education

2023
Jasone Cenoz, Durk Gorter
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Multilingual Information Access

2000
The global information society has radically changed the way in which know-ledge is acquired, disseminated and exchanged. Users of internationally distributed networks need to be able to find, retrieve and understand relevant information in whatever language and form it may have been stored.
Peters C, Sheridan P
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