The Million Book Digital Library Project: Research Problems in Data Mining And Discovery Raj Reddy, Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor, of Computer Science and Robotics, and Carnegie Mellon University USA Return to Keynotes Abstract Creating a universal, free to read, digital library containing all the books ever published is technically feasible today. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have all announced their intention to scan and make available books of interest to public. Unfortunately many of these will be in English and inaccessible to over 80% of the world's population. Even when books in other languages become available online, their content will remain incomprehensible to most people. Natural Language Processing Technology is not yet perfect but promises to provide a way out of this conundrum. In this talk, we will discuss some of the special and unique research problems in data discovery arising in digital libraries and other online content, such as multi-lingual search, translation and summarization. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery