在網際線路的蓬勃發展與美國數位國醬館計蜜的帶動下，有觀數{立關蓋章皇宮的研究已經受到全球性的重綴，的於所有的數位軍君主書館計輩都希望所提供的數位館藏以及資訊能夠排除語言障礙，提供全球性且不分積族約服務，因此近來有關多屋里語文問題 (Multi-lingual)對數位化國主書館的影響深受重重視。包括多話識l3U、處璟與顯示，以及多語及跨諮搜尋檢索等，不論業界或學界都有不少人在進行研究。而圍內在有關數位聽草書館研究逐漸跨歐之際，若也能針對多鐘語文問題深入討論，在中文之外也能考慮各國語文的草草域特性，如加強英、日、車章等語文資源的館藏與資訊檢索技衛，格價也有E建立出特色。基於作者知識範圍有紋，本文將 嘗試對數位化圖書館中多國語文問題作一粗淺討論，之後從多詣檢索飯點，來看中文資訊檢索約特性與問題，藉此拋磚引玉，期待未來有更多深入的探討，使得國內數位圖書館的研究能更加國際化。

of the Internet and the Digital Library Initiatives in digital library has been flourished around the world Recently the increasing availability of networked access to multilingual text collections within such an environment has吐 rawn much attention in the development of cross-language retrieval technology_ This article is used to structure a comprehensive discussion of published research and known commercial practice in the western world on the topic. lnaddition to the focus on the characteristics of Chinese text collections, some brief observations of the potential for multilingual information retrieval are also discussed in details