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Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

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Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
The aim of this project is the automatic conversion of query terms in one language into their equivalents in a second, historically related, language, so that documents in the second language can be retrieved. The method is to compile lists of regular sound changes which occur between related words of a language pair, and substitute these in the source language words to generate target language words. For example, if we know b in Italian often corresponds with a v in Spanish, an unaccented o in Italian with ó in Spanish, and a terminal e in Italian is replaced with a null in Spanish, we can construct the Spanish word autómovil (car) from the Italian automobile. A bilingual word list or dictionary is needed at first to first discover the set of regular sound changes, but once this is known, there is no further need for a dictionary to look up individual query words. The method is language pair independent, as long as the two languages belong to the same language family, such as the R...
Michael P. Oakes, Souvik Banerjee
Added 06 Jul 2010
Updated 06 Jul 2010
Type Conference
Year 2003
Where CLEF
Authors Michael P. Oakes, Souvik Banerjee
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