Query Optimization for Information Retrieval in Multilingual Environment for E-governance resources

This paper presents an analysis of Query Optimization and Information Retrieval in Multi-lingual Environment. Data plays an important role in Information retrieval. In today's global environment, databases should support multilingual text data efficiently and effectively. All the government records or portals today are required in regional language. The retrieval depends on the type of query passed and how the optimizer behaves with the amount and type of data to be retrieved. Hence it is imperative that the information systems support the storage and management of multi-lingual data effectively. The primary requirement to achieve this goal is that the principal data repositories should support storage and retrieval of Multi-lingual data. Our initial experiments indicated considerable performance degradation when comparisons where made between English and Gujarati language. This paper explores the work carried out by various researchers in Multilingual environment and our preliminary analysis for the same for Indian languages with emphasize on Gujarati language.