Multilingual Search in Libraries: The case-study of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006). 2006.

This paper presents an on-going project aiming at enhancing the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) search system of the Library of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano with multilingual access. The Multilingual search system (MUSIL), we have developed, integrates advanced linguistic technologies in a user friendly interface and bridges the gap between the world of free text search and the world of conceptual librarian search. In this paper we present the architecture of the system, its interface and preliminary evaluations of the precision of the search results.

@inproceedings{LREC-2006,
   title = "Multilingual Search in Libraries:  The case-study of the Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano",
   year = "2006",
   author = "Raffaella Bernardi and Diego Calvanese and Luca Dini and Di
Tomaso, Vittorio and Elisabeth Frasnelli and Ulrike Kugler and Barbara
Plank",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Language Resources and
Evaluation (LREC 2006)",
}