Effective multilingual information filtering is required to alleviate users' burden of information overload resulting from the increasing flood of multilingual textual content available extensively over the World-Wide Web. This paper proposes a content-based self-organizing approach to multilingual information filtering using fuzzy logic and the self-organizing map. This approach screens and evaluates multilingual documents based on their semantic contents. Correlated multilingual documents are disseminated according to their corresponding themes or topics, thus enabling language-independent contentbased information access efficiently and effectively. A Web-based multilingual online news-filtering system is developed to illustrate how the approach works.