Discusses various search strategies and tools that can be used for searching on the Internet, including search engines and search directories; Boolean searching; metasearching; relevancy ranking; automatic phrase detection; backlinks; natural-language searching; clustering and cataloging information; image searching; customization and portals;…

Presents experimentation results for the TELLTALE system, a dynamic hypertext environment that provides full-text search from a hypertext-style user interface for text corpora that may be garbled by OCR (optical character recognition) or transmission errors, and that may contain languages other than English. (Author/LRW)

Cultural differences enhance the wonder of camp. Tips for reaching diverse populations include emphasizing multicultural programming in promotional materials, distributing flyers in diverse neighborhoods, having diverse staff, advertising on radio stations popular with ethnic communities, offering scholarships, advertising through national ethnic…

This work describes a framework that combines techniques from Adaptive Hypermedia and Natural Language processing in order to create, in a fully automated way, on-line information systems from linear texts in electronic format, such as textbooks. The process is divided into two steps: an "off-line" processing step, which analyses the source text,…

Mail questionnaire response rates were investigated in a three-factor design including ethnic group (Spanish surname vs. non-Spanish surname), income level (below vs. above median income) and questionnaire language (English only vs. English with interlinear Spanish translations). Log-linear multiway frequency analysis indicated lower response…

The multilingual EUDISED thesaurus is a documentary language specially conceived for the processing of information regarding education in Council of Europe member states. It is intended first for use by abstracting and indexing institutions, especially those which define the contents of documents for retrieval by computer. But it is also designed…

Discusses how current procedures for selecting/constructing equivalent texts may lead to error because of their specific limitations; proposes the utilization of micro-propositional analysis coupled with word-frequency lists and readability formulas for constructing "matching" texts; presents some procedures which researchers working in…

This Spanish- and Portuguese-language bulletin presents articles on matters of tolerance, and the lack of it. Among the topics covered are the similarities and differences between projects and organizations that promote tolerance, methods of teaching tolerance, four different projects that combat violence, and some ways in which such projects…

With the rapid growth of the global information society, the concept of library has evolved to embrace all kinds of information collections, on all kinds of storage media, and using many different access methods. The users of today's information networks and digital libraries, no longer restricted by geographic or spatial boundaries, want to be…

Explains the development of standardized coding for digital text, especially for multilingual text, that has culminated in the Unicode standard. Topics include the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative (HTI); a history of character sets; transliteration; non-Roman languages; fonts; and barriers to adoption of the Unicode standard. A…

Disentangled sources of differential item functioning (DIF) in a multilanguage assessment for which multiple factors were expected to be causing DIF. Data for the Third International Mathematics and Science study for four countries and two languages (3,000 to 11,000 cases in each comparison group) reveal amounts and sources of DIF. (SLD)

Describes Government of Quebec materials available in microformat from two private publishers, Service de Microfilm du Quebec and Micromedia Limited. Materials include sessional papers, journals of the legislative assembly, and debates. Recent legislation affecting the legal deposit of government publications in microform is also discussed. (9…

Describes the development of the Korean system for submitting electronic theses and dissertations. Highlights include standards for document formats; format conversion and processing; full-text retrieval; and multilingual database and retrieval system issues. (LRW)

Reviews the history of the "International Social Science Journal," formerly the "International Social Science Bulletin," as on its 50th year. Focuses on the editorial history, quality control, multilingual production, the various types of authors, the language and style of the material, evolution of themes, and discussion of…

In this article, the author presents the bilingual books suggested by Pistu Downey, a bilingual teacher that teaches Spanish to kids ages three to six at the Bank Street College School for Children. Downey claims that reading bilingual books--books that contain words in languages other than English--gives children a very good opportunity of…