Integration of multilingual resources and tools in Web applications, Hamburg, Deutschland

Integration of multilingual resources and tools in Web applications <BR><BR>Modern Web applications are not only simple upload/download&#8211;repositories for documents but they are required to manage, intelligently retrieve, classify and summarize available information&#046; Therefore there is an increased need of Web content management systems (WCMS) which implement techniques as text mining, information retrieval or automatic summarization&#046; <BR>Managing information on and for the Web means also that an additional dimension has to be considered: multilinguality&#046; <BR><BR>A multilingual WCMS must not only be able to process content in different languages, but should provide mechanisms for cross&#8211;lingual retrieval and (semi&#8211;) automatic translation&#046; It should be able to integrate and pipeline heterogeneous components for all involved languages and ensure robustness independent of particular domain of the documents&#046; <BR><BR>These are challenging tasks, as usually language technology components are designed for a particular domain, have different input and output formats, require external resources and have varying execution times&#046; <BR><BR>Recent European activities propose different solutions raising from implementation of Web services up to fully integrated language processing tools&#046; <BR>