A cross-language search engine enables English monolingual researchers to find relevant foreign-language documents
Monday, May 30, 2016 - 06:00
in Psychology & Sociology
"About 6,000 languages are currently spoken in the world today," says Elizabeth Salesky of MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Human Language Technology (HLT) Group. "Within the law enforcement community, there are not enough multilingual analysts who possess the necessary level of proficiency to understand and analyze content across these languages," she continues.