@inproceedings{hayashi-etal-1999-scalable,
    title = "A scalable cross-language metasearch architecture for multilingual information access on the Web",
    author = "Hayashi, Yoshihiko  and
      Kikui, Genichiro  and
      Iwadera, Toshiaki",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII",
    month = sep # " 13-17",
    year = "1999",
    address = "Singapore, Singapore",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/1999.mtsummit-1.24/",
    pages = "157--164",
    abstract = "This position paper for the special session on ``Multilingual Information Access'' comprises of three parts. The first part reviews possible demands for Multilingual Information Access (hereafter, MLIA) on the Web, and examines required technical elements. Among those, we, in the second part, focus on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (hereafter, CLIR), particularly a scalable architecture which enables CLIR in a number of language combinations. Such a distributed architecture developed around XIRCH project (an international joint experimental project currently involves NTT, KRDL, and KAIST) is then described in a certain detail. The final part discusses some NLP/MT related issues associated with such a CLIR architecture."
}