Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval

Abstract. In this paper we propose an approach to deal with the ChineseEnglish cross-language image retrieval problem. Text-based image retrieval and query translation methods were adopted in the experiments. A similaritybased backward transliteration model with candidate filter was proposed to translate proper nouns that have no entries in a bilingual dictionary. The experimental results showed that using similarity-based backward transliteration increased retrieval performances.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Wen-Cheng Lin, Changhua Yang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
• Keywords: Backward Transliteration, CLEF 2003, Cross-language Image Retrieval, Image Retrieval