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Information Retrieval Techniques

• Language technologies:

• multilingual search engines

• Machine Translation systems

• content-based language technologies

• document summarisation

• E-commerce

• information extraction

• human-computer dialog systems etc.

• EC report (1997):

75% of commercial Web sites in Europe are non-English

• Forrester Research Inc. report:

82% of Web sites for Europe’s largest firms offer content in more than one language

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