System Architecture and Multilinguality
Nicola Ferro and Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
Dept. of Information Engineering,University of Padua, Italy
Abstract
Multilingual Information Access (MLIA) systems are designed for both unstructured and structured data and deal with information needs for which relevant information can exist in languages other than the one the query is formulated in. In order to address different kinds of information needs in a flexbile way and to cope with different types of information resources, architectural choices play an important role in the design and development of MLIA systems. Moreover, similar architectural components can play different roles according to the information needs and tasks that are being addressed. This session thus concerns the impact of the different architectural alternatives when designing MLIA systems for specific applicative scenarios.
Lesson I - MLIA Architectures: Standalone Applications and Services to Complex Systems (Nicola Ferro)
This lesson will present a conceptual architecture for a MLIA systems and analyse its main building blocks. The proposed architecture is suitable for developing standalone MLIA application focused on searching and retrieving multilingual documents. Moreover, we will discuss how the proposed architecture can be integrated and extended to be part of more complex systems, such as the digital library systems, and we will examine how it impacts on the design of such complex systems.
Lesson II MLIA Architectures: Advanced Services Beyond Searching (Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio)
This lesson will present how the building block of the proposed conceptual architecture can be looked from a perspective different from the search and retrieval one. In particular, we will discuss how both end-user services and system services can rely on and exploit the building blocks of the proposed architecture. Examples of the former are multilingual categorisation and filtering; examples of the latter are log keeping and analysis aimed at user personalization and profiling.
Course Material
System Architecture and Multilinguality
MLIA Architectures: Standalone Applications and Services to Complex Systems
Nicola Ferro, Department of Information Engineering,University of Padua, Italy
MLIA Architectures: Advanced Services Beyond Searching
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Department of Information Engineering,University of Padua, Italy
