Wielojęzyczny system informacyjno-wyszukiwawczy językoznawstwa slawistycznego iSybislaw: wyzwania, osiągnięcia i możliwości
Multilingual information retrieval system of Slavic linguistics iSybislaw: challenges, achievements and opportunities

Summary/Abstract: In multilingual information retrieval (IR) system iSybislaw we introduce a number of solutions enlarging its efficiency and effectiveness with the main tool, which presents the keyword language. In this paper the applicability and consistency of the accepted approach in the presentation of the content of documents and IR is being discussed. We use natural language (professional language based on linguistic terminology) in the construction of the keyword language and implementation of the tools of semantic organization and access to multilingual informational database. The core task is to make allowance in the retrieval database for relations of equivalence between the keywords in different Slavic languages and in the English language, which will enable the simultaneous search in different languages. Implementation of the natural language enables optimization of the IR language but on the other hand it creates problems connected with synonymy and polysemy of the terms used as keywords. Such problems are being solved with implementation of the classes of equivalent keywords, pairs and more complicated units of monosemantic keywords presenting the terms linked with each other by semantic relations. Burst-type increase of written documents in the field of linguistics requires taking effort in speeding up the processing of the growing number of repre­sentations of these documents into search database. So we decided to call upon the users (the authors of the works considered in the system) to take part in creation of the IR language in the iSybislaw system through tagging.

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