Cross-language Information Access for Digital Libraries

Cross-Language Information Access (CLIA), an extension of the field of Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), enables digital library (DL) users to search and locate digital objects in languages other than their search terms. This research project aims to investigate CLIA technologies for digital libraries so that digital assets in digital libraries can be accessed by broader user communities.

 

Current Project Members:

Jiangping Chen (Jiangping.Chen@unt.edu)

Dandala Bharath

Ren Ding

Ryan Knudson

Shan Jiang

Miguel Ruiz ( Miguel.Ruiz@unt.edu)

 

Interested in Joining our Team? Please contact Dr. Jiangping Chen (jpchen@unt.edu)

 

Project Website at TxCDK

References:

Chen, Jiangping and Ruiz, Miguel. (2009). Towards an integrative approach to cross-language information access for digital libraries. Proceedings of SIGIR 2009 Workshop: Information Access in a Multilingual World, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. July 23, 2009.

Chen, Jiangping. (2006). A lexical knowledge base approach for English-Chinese cross-language information retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(2), 233-243.