A multilingual knowledge management system: A case study of FAO and WAICENT

  • Authors:
  • Daniel E. O'Leary

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0441, United States

  • Venue:
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper provides a case study of a multilingual knowledge management system for a large organization. In so doing we elicit what it means for a system to be ''multilingual'' and how that changes some previous research on knowledge management. Some researchers have viewed multilingual as meaning a multilingual user interface. However, that is only a small part of the story. In this case we find multilingual also refers to a broad range of ''multilingual,'' including multilingual knowledge resources, multilingual feedback from users, multilingual search, multilingual ontologies and other concerns.