Systems, methods, software, and interfaces for multilingual information retrieval

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The present inventors have a devised one or more novel methods systems, and , interfaces for facilitating multi-lingual searches. One exemplary method entails creating multiple language-specific indices for a collection of documents, with each index including stemmed and non-stemmed versions of terms from the documents. Users submit queries that are associated with a set of one or more target languages. Query processing entails translating original and stemmed versions of each term in a query into each of the target languages using one or more techniques that each yield a set of potentially equivalent query terms. Each set of potentially equivalent query terms is then processed …