Towards semantically linked multilingual corpus

•We propose a framework for semantically linked multilingual corpus.•We provide a solution to construct semantically linked multilingual corpus.•Establishing metadata and content based semantic links in different granularities.•Analyzing multilingual applications of semantically linked multilingual corpus.•Study the cognitive theoretical basis of semantic associations and semantic links.

Multilingual information processing gains more and more attention in recent years with the development of information globalization. Multilingual corpus is a key challenge for multilingual information extraction, analysis, management and service in a wide range of systems. This work addresses on the study and analysis of semantic associations among elements in a multilingual corpus. A solution is proposed in this paper to optimize the semantic organization of multilingual corpus by linking the corpus elements into a semantic link network. This enhances the text-basd applications of multilingual corpus such as corpus linguistics study, dictionary search, machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval.