Federated search services provider Deep Web Technologies, US, has unveiled multilingual translation capability for the WorldWideScience Alliance using its federated search application. The international science portal, WorldWideScience.org, claims to be the first application to be deployed with this capability. Abe Lederman, President and CTO of Deep Web Technologies, demonstrated the new technology at the recently concluded International Council for Scientific and Technical Information's (ICSTI) 2010 Summer Conference in Helsinki.
ICSTI is a primary sponsor of the WorldWideScience.org Alliance, whose purpose is to provide 'a geographically diverse, governance structure to promote and build upon the original vision of a global science gateway.
Multilingual federated search translates a user's search query into the native languages of the collections being searched, aggregates and ranks these results according to relevance, and translates result titles and snippets back to the user's original language. The translation, powered by Microsoft, makes it simple to search collections in multiple languages from a single search box in the user's native language.
While many countries have a wealth of research content in local collections, much of this information has not been translated to other languages. Deep Web Technologies' multilingual translation capability augments the company's Explorit Research Accelerator federated search engine, allowing users to search multiple collections from different countries and languages simultaneously. This release of multilingual Explorit provides for searches of collections in English, Spanish, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.
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