Emis a Multilingual Information System

The objective of the emis project is the conception and realization of a multilingual information system on European media law with the following functionalities: search by words, a combination of words, phrases or keywords, guided search by using a so-called thematic structure, retrieval of documents in diierent languages with one monolingualquery by using language processing and MT technology, exploitation of additional information for the retrieved documents, which is stored in a database. structured representations of the document archive, the so-called dogmatic structure, multilingual user interface. The core component of emis is the multilingual cross language retrieval which is enhanced by linguistic processing i.e. by a morpho-syntactic analysis applied to the documents and to the queries and the relevant bilingual dictionaries. The languages covered by the project are German, English and French.