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MuchMore prototype system is a cross-lingual
document retrieval system that enables users to retrieve
documents in multiple languages relevant to a given query
document. In the current version of the MuchMore system,
query documents are German electronic patient records and
documents to be retrieved are medical scientific abstracts
in both German and English. Applications in other domains
and language combinations are feasible, given appropriate
linguistic and semantic resources.
The system has been designed as an enterprise information
provider, using Java J2EE technology. All strategic components
have been redesigned to adhere to the EJB component technology,
in order to guarantee full reusability and interoperability
in context of Internet and enterprise level applications.
In terms of search functionality, the system offers a complete
integration of the EIT, CSLI and CMU search engines and
functions as a meta-search engine, organizing results into
a uniform format, ranking them by relevance. The uniform
display format has been designed to meet the criteria of
a full search engine and a standard results fusing measure
has been used for merging the different scored results.
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