Cross-lingual Search

The project Cross-lingual Search should make finding information across language barriers possible. There is an ongoing debate on whether scientific and professional communication should be based on a lingua franca like English or whether national languages should also play a role. In psychology, the multilingual information system PubPsych is used to investigate the added value of machine aided access to descriptions of research resources in languages that users normally don’t understand. This project aims at providing empirical evidence about this important query evaluating different machine translation approaches: Query translation, translation of the information systems’ text corpora, cross-lingual thesaurus mapping and English as a pivot language.