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A Case Study for Multilingual Support: Applying the AAT-Thesaurus to TELDAP’s Multilingual Project

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Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation (ICADL 2011)

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The translation of cultural-laden words has been a formidable project. This paper discusses how AAT-Thesaurus, with its classification of semantic equivalence and carefully structured terms, helps the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) conquer the difficulty of untranslatability.

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  1. National Taiwan University Library, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hsueh-Hua Chen, Shin-Yen Lee & Jessamine Cheng

  2. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shu-Jiun Chen

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  1. Information Science and Technology Building, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R. China

    Chunxiao Xing

  2. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani

  3. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems,, Vienna University of Technology, 1040, Vienna, Austria

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Chen, HH., Chen, SJ., Lee, SY., Cheng, J. (2011). A Case Study for Multilingual Support: Applying the AAT-Thesaurus to TELDAP’s Multilingual Project. In: Xing, C., Crestani, F., Rauber, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation. ICADL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24826-9_46

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