Linguistically-adapted structural query annotation for digital libraries in the social sciences

  • Authors:
  • Caroline Brun;Vassilina Nikoulina;Nikolaos Lagos

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan France;Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan France;Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan France

  • Venue:
  • LaTeCH '12 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Query processing is an essential part of a range of applications in the social sciences and cultural heritage domain. However, out-of-the-box natural language processing tools originally developed for full phrase analysis are inappropriate for query analysis. In this paper, we propose an approach to solving this problem by adapting a complete and integrated chain of NLP tools, to make it suitable for queries analysis. Using as a case study the automatic translation of queries posed to the Europeana library, we demonstrate that adapted linguistic processing can lead to improvements in translation quality.