%0 Conference Paper %1 cosijn02information %A Cosijn, Erica %A Pirkola, Ari %A Bothma, Theo %A Järvelin, Kalervo %B CoLIS 4 : fourth international conference on conceptions of library and information science : emerging frameworks and methods (Seattle WA, 21-25 July 2002) %D 2002 %K information-seeking %T Information access in indigenous languages: a case study in Zulu %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/559922.html %X This study focuses on the intellectual accessibility of information in indigenous languages, using Zulu, one of the main indigenous languages in South Africa, as a test case. Both Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) and metadata are discussed as possible means of facilitating access and a bilateral approach combining these two methods is proposed. Popular CLIR approaches and their resource requirements are analysed and the dictionary-based approach combined with approximate...

@inproceedings{cosijn02information, abstract = {This study focuses on the intellectual accessibility of information in indigenous languages, using Zulu, one of the main indigenous languages in South Africa, as a test case. Both Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) and metadata are discussed as possible means of facilitating access and a bilateral approach combining these two methods is proposed. Popular CLIR approaches and their resource requirements are analysed and the dictionary-based approach combined with approximate...}, added-at = {2007-08-24T13:31:38.000+0200}, author = {Cosijn, Erica and Pirkola, Ari and Bothma, Theo and Järvelin, Kalervo}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21a244b94394aef31bd893f35f0d57516/rafg}, booktitle = {CoLIS 4 : fourth international conference on conceptions of library and information science : emerging frameworks and methods (Seattle WA, 21-25 July 2002)}, citeulike-article-id = {984266}, description = {CiteULike import}, interhash = {00274a3c2469d44aa4b4b4eaaff455a6}, intrahash = {1a244b94394aef31bd893f35f0d57516}, keywords = {information-seeking}, priority = {1}, timestamp = {2007-08-24T13:31:43.000+0200}, title = {Information access in indigenous languages: a case study in Zulu}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/559922.html}, year = 2002 }