Enabling Multilingual Search through Controlled Vocabularies: the AGRIS Approach

Main Authors: Celli, Fabrizio, Keizer, Johannes
Format: Preprint NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2016
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Online Access: http://eprints.rclis.org/30220/1/Celli_EnablingMultilingualSearch.pdf
http://eprints.rclis.org/30220/
Daftar Isi:
  • AGRIS is a bibliographic database of scientific publications in the food and agricultural domain. The AGRIS web portal is highly visited, reaching peaks of 350,000 visits/month from more than 200 countries and territories. Considering the variety of AGRIS users, the possibility to support cross-language information retrieval is crucial to improve the usefulness of the web-site. This paper describes a lightweight approach adopted to enable the afore-mentioned feature in the AGRIS system. The proposed approach relies on the adoption of a controlled vocabulary. Furthermore, we discuss how expanding user queries with synonyms increases the sensitivity of a search engine and how we can use a controlled vocabulary to achieve this result.