%0 Journal Article %1 noguerasiso2004imc %A Iso, Nogueras J. %A Soria, Zarazaga F. J. %A Lacasta, J. %A Tolosana, R. %A Medrano, Muro P. R. %D 2004 %J 10th European Commission GI&GIS Workshop, ESDI: The State of the Art, Warsaw, Poland %K disambiguation information-retrieval thesaurus %T Improving multilingual catalog search services by means of multilingual thesaurus disambiguation %U http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/10ec-gis/papers/25june\_nogueras.pdf %X Multilinguality is an important aspect for the creation of public services in countries like Spain, with four official languages (Spanish, Catalonian, Basque and Galician), and overall, if these services are aimed for a European audience with a big number of official languages. Thus, an initiative for creating a catalog service at the Spanish or at the European level must take into account the necessity of supporting metadata written in a variety of languages. When a user submits a query request to a catalog, (s)he should obtain the data resources that verify the restriction specified by the user and with independence of the language used in the metadata records describing these resources. Our R&D group has developed a strategy for managing these multilingual metadata aspects that face up the problem from three points of view: the use of multilingual controlled lists, the use of multilingual and interrelated thesauri, and the word sense disambiguation of large text descriptive elements. These three substrategies, integrated within a catalog server, are being currently tested in several spatial data infrastructure projects.

@article{noguerasiso2004imc, abstract = {Multilinguality is an important aspect for the creation of public services in countries like Spain, with four official languages (Spanish, Catalonian, Basque and Galician), and overall, if these services are aimed for a European audience with a big number of official languages. Thus, an initiative for creating a catalog service at the Spanish or at the European level must take into account the necessity of supporting metadata written in a variety of languages. When a user submits a query request to a catalog, (s)he should obtain the data resources that verify the restriction specified by the user and with independence of the language used in the metadata records describing these resources. Our R\&D group has developed a strategy for managing these multilingual metadata aspects that face up the problem from three points of view: the use of multilingual controlled lists, the use of multilingual and interrelated thesauri, and the word sense disambiguation of large text descriptive elements. These three substrategies, integrated within a catalog server, are being currently tested in several spatial data infrastructure projects.}, added-at = {2008-02-10T02:19:38.000+0100}, author = {Iso, Nogueras J. and Soria, Zarazaga F. J. and Lacasta, J. and Tolosana, R. and Medrano, Muro P. R.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27794d8b60e7f35ab762ce0af8908b491/brightbyte}, citeulike-article-id = {2320639}, description = {stuff from citeyoulike}, interhash = {529cfbb27f12722fdb5a66fc15474198}, intrahash = {7794d8b60e7f35ab762ce0af8908b491}, journal = {10th European Commission GI\&GIS Workshop, ESDI: The State of the Art, Warsaw, Poland}, keywords = {disambiguation information-retrieval thesaurus}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2009-01-23T09:58:50.000+0100}, title = {Improving multilingual catalog search services by means of multilingual thesaurus disambiguation}, url = {http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/10ec-gis/papers/25june\_nogueras.pdf}, year = 2004 }