Multi-Language Information Searching Tool

Abstract

This paper presents a tool, namely Multi-Language Information Searching (MLIS), for a meaning-oriented search. MLIS allows users to access the right information and provides the search results with knowledge from different cultures and languages. MLIS takes advantage of agent technology as well as web services to enhance the quality of existing search engines in terms of accessibility, usability and flexibility. Their are several advantages in using MLIS, including: MLIS simultaneously performs in different languages translation and search activities as background processes hidden from users; it provides a friendly graphical user interface that instantly displays the search results in separated tabs, categorizing them according to languages chosen by users; it is proposed with a flexible architecture to automatically create multiple web-service agents based on users' preferences; it is service-independent and can integrate, for the same session, several web services from different service providers.