EMC Documentum ECI Multilingual Services enables cross-lingual queries and provides comprehension and translation aid to EMC Documentum ECI Services. With ECI Multilingual Services, users can formulate search queries in their preferred languages and perform on-the-fly translations—within the context of the documents being viewed. This tool can utilize either general purpose or industry-specific dictionaries, and provides support for major European languages including English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.