Enabling Multilingual Search through Controlled Vocabularies: the AGRIS Approach

Celli, Fabrizio and Keizer, Johannes Enabling Multilingual Search through Controlled Vocabularies: the AGRIS Approach., 2016 [Preprint]

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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.

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: Cross-language Information Retrieval, Controlled Vocabulary, Query Expansion, Search Engine, Digital Repository, Agriculture, FAO_AIMS, FAO, AIMS
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services > IC. Index languages, processes and schemes.
I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
I. Information treatment for information services > IL. Semantic web
Depositing user: Thembani Malapela
Date deposited: 07 Nov 2016 07:57
Last modified: 07 Nov 2016 07:57
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/30220

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