The GALATEAS project offers digital content providers an innovative approach to understanding users' behaviour by analysing language-based information from transaction logs and facilitates the development of improved navigation and search technologies for multilingual content access.

The objectives of GALATEAS are the following.

• Query log analysis. Analyse transaction logs containing queries to search engines for a given content provider and produce customized reports concerning the information needs of the users accessing that particular aggregation. The analysis is based on linguistic and statistical features.
• Query translation. Translate queries coming from an external search engine into several target languages. The external search engine will use these translations to return results in languages other than the one in which the query was formulated. The languages addressed in the context of GALATEAS are Italian, French, English, German, Dutch, Modern Arabic and Polish.

The sound integration of GALATEAS's infrastructure with current digital content systems will be achieved by coupling statistical and natural language processing techniques with existing information retrieval systems using a web services based framework.