English Language, a path to the knowledge management

Today’s knowledge management systems seldom account for language management and,especially, multilingual information processing (from now on by multilingual we mean amanager who knows at least English as his/her second language). In terms of number ofspeakers, after Chinese and Spanish, English is the third largest language in the world. TheEnglish language has without doubt established itself in a position of a global lingua franca.A large body of science resources is represented in English. That's why English language iscalled the language of science . On the other hand, a large amount of today's worldcommercials are done by English language and it is necessary for a good manager to beequipped with English as their second language. In this paper, we model information flowfrom the sources of knowledge to the persons/systems searching for specific information.Within this framework, we focus on the importance of multilingual information processing,which is a hugely vital component of modern organizations to be able to enter globalcompetition

Keywords:

English language , knowledge management , globalization , modern organizations