PURPOSE The purpose of this review was to examine the descriptions of multilingual participants provided in stuttering literature to determine how frequently and consistently relevant factors of language profile are reported. METHOD We conducted a systematic search of published studies that included multilingual participants who stutter and reviewed the level of detail provided regarding lang...

This paper describes the main challenges of multilingual question answering. In particular, it focuses on the problem of answer fusion, which concerns the combination of answers obtained from collections in different languages. Basically, it compares a set of techniques for answer fusion, previously used in other multilingual tasks, in the problem of multilingual question answering. On the basi...

In a multilingual country like India, a document may contain text words in more than one language. For a multilingual environment, multi lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system is needed to read the multilingual documents. So, it is necessary to identify different language regions of the document before feeding the document to the OCRs of individual language. The objective of this pa...

This paper presents the 2005 Miracle’s team approach to Bilingual and Multilingual Information Retrieval. In the multilingual track, we have concentrated our work on the merging process of the results of monolingual runs to get the multilingual overall result, relying on available translations. In the bilingual and multilingual tracks, we have used available translation resources, and in some c...

Abstract The ELG pilot project Multilingual Image Corpus (MIC 21) provides a large image dataset with annotated objects and multilingual descriptions in 25 languages. Our main contributions are: the provision of collection highquality, copyright-free images; formulation an ontology visual based on WordNet noun hierarchies; precise manual correction automatic segmentation annotation object class...

The amount of multilingual data on the Web proliferates; therefore, developing ontologies in various natural languages is attracting considerable attention. In order to achieve semantic interoperability for Web, cross-lingual ontology matching techniques are highly required. This paper proposes a Multilingual Ontology Matching (MoMatch) approach different languages. MoMatch uses machine transla...

In this paper we introduce Mailman (Postimies), a multilingual speech-based e-mail client. We discuss the most critical and interesting problems found in the domain of multilingual e-mail, such as the problematic presentation of structured elements in a multilingual context, and introduce solutions to them. We also present how our speech application development framework Jaspis, on which Mailma...

With the increasing amount of multilingual texts in the Internet, multilingual text retrieval techniques have become an important research issue. However, the discovery of relationships between different languages remains an open problem. In this paper we propose a method, which applied the growing hierarchical self-organizing map (GHSOM) model, to discover knowledge from multilingual text docu...