Abstract
Europeana, a digital library that aggregates content from libraries, archives and museums from all around Europe, offers search functionality using the metadata of more than 62 million objects. However, in most cases, this data is only available in one language, while users come from countries with different languages. Europeana’s strategy for the improvement of multilingual experiences includes the design and implementation of a multilingual information retrieval system based on the translation of queries and metadata to English. As a first development in this context, we have implemented a pilot applying query translation to English for the Spanish version of the website in order to surface results that have English metadata associated with them. We conducted an evaluation to assess the performance of this pilot and identify issues. The good performance rates observed allowed us to take the pilot to production, and the issues identified led to a list of specific actions, which should be addressed to the extent possible before the application of a wider multilingual information retrieval system.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries |
Subtitle of host publication | 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2022, Padua, Italy, September 20–23, 2022, Proceedings |
Editors | Gianmaria Silvello, Oscar Corcho, Paolo Manghi, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Koraljka Golub, Nicola Ferro, Antonella Poggi |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
Pages | 93-106 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031168024 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783031168017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2022 - Padua, Italy Duration: 20 Sept 2022 → 23 Sept 2022 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 13541 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2022 |
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Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Padua |
Period | 20/09/22 → 23/09/22 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Keywords
- Cultural Heritage
- Information retrieval
- Multilinguality