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This unique guide offers you a thorough understanding of multilingual information access (MLIA) and services and related concepts, such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing. * Integrates useful knowledge from multiple disciplines such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing for multilingual information access* Provides practical knowledge and technologies you can understand and apply in your work* Shows you how to evaluate machine translation services and how to build multilingual services for digital libraries* Acts as both a professional guide and a textbook or reference book for LIS courses* Features comprehensive analysis of information processing tools and resources that will benefit corporate information professionals who deal with international customers.