Towards a Hypermedia, Multilingual, On-Line Resource System for LSP Users/Learners

Multilingual access to expert knowledge is difficult to support because demands are specific. In this situation self-access resources, where the learner can autonomously decide on matters like object of study, pace of progression, type of retrieval, or style of learning, assume particular significance. The objective of this paper is to briefly survey current demands, to discuss selected problems involved in the use and acquisition of multilingual expert knowledge by potential users, to display some possibilities of machine representation of such knowledge, and to outline the software design of a first prototype which is at the stage of being implemented with multimedia data.