The University of Maryland participated in the topic tracking task submitting four runs for the required conditions ba sic and challenge In this working notes paper we present preliminary results based on those runs and six additional contrastive runs that explored translation selection post translation resegmentation post transcription document ex pansion and source dependent normalization One...

Continuing improvements in human language algorithms, coupled with improvements in digital storage and processing, inspire growing confidence in multilingual information access systems. Systems exist to transcribe broadcast news, segment broadcasts into individual stories and sort them by topic. These technologies, useful in isolation, are now being combined to produce intelligent multilingual ...

In this paper, we present a survey of challenges and solutions of multilingual and translingual information service systems. In contrast to the computational linguistics literature on such systems, we are approaching the theme here from an HCI perspective. We will argue for a strategy that reduces reliance on automatic free-text translation, language input and classical information retrieval wh...