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Multilingual Digital Libraries: Research and Practice (SIGs III, DL)
Douglas Oard, Lynne Howarth, and Ian H. Witten
Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together @ ASIST '05 (ASIS&T 2005)
Westin Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28 - November 2, 2005
Abstract
This session will focus on important issues in designing and implementing multilingual digital libraries. A group of experts who have both research and implementation experiences with multilingual digital libraries will join the panel to present and discuss:
(1) the state of the art of searching a broad range of spoken word multilingual digital collections,
(2) research and development of a multilingual cross-repository retrieval prototype, and
(3) implementation of an open source digital library system that supports creating multilingual digital libraries.
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