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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources
The quality of translation resources is arguably the most important factor affecting the performance of a cross-language information retrieval system. While many investigations ha...
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Cross-lingual relevance models
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...
Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft
JIIS
2006
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Using KCCA for Japanese-English cross-language information retrieval and document classification
Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (KCCA) is a method of correlating linear relationship between two variables in a kernel defined feature space. A machine learning algorithm b...
Yaoyong Li, John Shawe-Taylor
IPM
2008
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User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information retrieval
Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), a process in which searcher and system collaborate to find documents that satisfy an information need regardless of the la...
Douglas W. Oard, Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Creating a Persian-English Comparable Corpus
Multilingual corpora are valuable resources for cross-language information retrieval and are available in many language pairs. However the Persian language does not have rich multi...
Homa Baradaran Hashemi, Azadeh Shakery, Heshaam Fe...
TREC
2000
13 years 5 months ago
CINDOR TREC-9 English-Chinese Evaluation
MNIS-TextWise Labs participated in the TREC-9 Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. The focus of our research for this participation has been on rapidly adding Chine...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Steve Rowe, Maurice Forrester, Par...
TREC
2000
13 years 5 months ago
English-Chinese Cross-Language IR Using Bilingual Dictionaries
This report describes the English-Chinese crosslanguage retrieval experiments at Berkeley for TREC-9 Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. We present a simple and effective ...
Aitao Chen, Hailing Jiang, Fredric C. Gey
RIAO
2000
13 years 5 months ago
The Effect of Pseudo Relevance Feedback on MT-Based CLIR
In this paper, we identify factors that affect machine translation (MT) of a source query for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and empirically evaluate the effect of ps...
Yan Qu, Alla N. Eilerman, Hongming Jin, David A. E...
WM
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Ontologies in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
: We present an approach to using ontologies as interlingua in cross-language information retrieval in the medical domain. Our approach is based on using the Unified Medical Langu...
Martin Volk, Spela Vintar, Paul Buitelaar
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Proper Name Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Recently, language barrier becomes the major problem for people to search, retrieve, and understand WWW documents in different languages. This paper deals with query translation i...
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Sheng-Jie Huang, Yung-Wei Ding, Shi...