An Application of Machine Translation Technology in Multilingual Information Retrieval

The approach of using an existing machine translation system in multili ngual information retrieval, as usually proposed, consists of automatically translating queries, or even the entire textual database, from one language to another. The information that machine translation technology can provide to multili ngual information retrieval has been more extensively explored at SYSTRAN. An existing information retrieval tool, which is based on SYSTRAN parsing and machine translation technology, has been investigated for use in information retrieval. This paper is a description of the implementation of what is now called the SYSTRAN NLP Browser, a cross-linguistic multili ngual information retrieval system. The first section discusses the utili zation of machine translation technology in multili ngual information retrieval in general. The second section describes the implementation of the NLP Browser. The third section discusses the present approach and the current development status, followed by the conclusion.