Multilingual analysis tools for international Web Shopping ITWeek
ZDNet UK Briefing Paper, October 16, 2000 by Erik Vlietinck
Describes tools to handle the special problems of multilingual searching
on e-commerce sites.
LexTek Onix is mentioned as
using linguistics-based technology and translation tools. Lernout &
Hauspie of Belgium provides speech recognition and translation tools in
22 languages, and is associated with DMPartners Essence (summarization)
and
Scout (search engine) tools. Compares statistical processing
of natural-language queries to Scout's linguistic analysis for retrieval
and describes the value of linguistic searching.