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  <Title>An Intelligent Multilingual Information Browsing and Retrieval System Using Information Extraction</Title>
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5 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described an advanced multilingual cross-linguistic information browsing and retrieval system which takes advantage of information extraction technology in unique ways. In addition to its basic capability of allowing a user to send Boolean queries in English against English and Japanese documents and to view the results in semi- and fully translated forms, the system has many innovative capabilities.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> It can disambiguate query terms to increase precision, expand query terms automatically using aliases to increase recall, and improve translation accuracy significantly by finding and disambiguating names accurately. Moreover, the system allows interactive information discovery from a multilingual document collection by combining IE and MT technologies.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The Indexing Module is currently running on a Sun platform and is designed to scale for a multi-user operational environment. The Web browser-based user interface will work in any Web browser supporting HTML 3.0 on any platform which the Web browser supports, and this ensures a large user base.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The system is customizable in several ways. For our current application, the system indexes names and S&amp;T terms, but for other applications we can customize the system to index different types of names and terms. For example, the system can be customized to index product names and financial terms for a business application. Its ODBC-compliance makes porting of databases from one vendor to another very easy. Finally, the system does not assume any particular language combination or target language. Thus, this system can also be used for Japanese monolingual users who want to query and browse in Japanese a set of documents written in English, Japanese, and Spanish.</Paragraph>
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