Abstract One of the main hurdles to improved CLIR effectiveness is resolving ambiguity associated with translation. Availability of resources is also a problem. First we present a ...
This paper proposes a Japanese/English crosslanguage information retrieval (CLIR) system targeting technical documents. Our system first translates a given query containing techni...
This paper presents the results of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual tasks at CLEF 2004. For these tasks we used an approach ba...
In Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), queries in one language retrieve relevant documents in other languages. Machine-Readable Dictionary (MRD) and Machine Translation (...
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...