Guest editorial: Artificial intelligence and software multilinguality

In this editorial we briefly discuss issues related to multilinguality in the software industry and highlight areas where AI - based methods , techniques , and tools can be used to support multilinguality . We then provide short descriptions of the five papers selected for this special issue . Two cover research work on localization of user interfaces and documentation (Boutsis et al. and Bateman et al.) and are published in this issue . The other three cover research work on multilingual text retrieval (Gonzalo et al., Michos et al., and Azzamet al.) and are to be published in issue no 7 . Our goal is to show the readers that existing AI methods , although not always mature and near - to - market , can offer much help to support multilinguality in the software industry .