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CLEF
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
English-Dutch CLIR Using Query Translation Techniques
We present a report on our participation in the English-Dutch bilingual task of the 2001 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We attempted to demonstrate that good cross languag...
Mirna Adriani
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Effective Arabic-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval via Machine-Readable Dictionaries and Machine Translation
In Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), queries in one language retrieve relevant documents in other languages. Machine-Readable Dictionary (MRD) and Machine Translation (...
Mohammed Aljlayl, Ophir Frieder
ITCC
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On Arabic-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Machine Translation Approach
A Machine Translation (MT) system is an automatic process that translates from one human language to another language by using context information. We evaluate the use of an MT-ba...
Mohammed Aljlayl, Ophir Frieder, David A. Grossman
ICADL
2003
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Towards Web Mining of Query Translations for Cross-Language Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries
This paper proposes an efficient client-server-based query translation approach to allowing more feasible implementation of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) services in ...
Wen-Hsiang Lu, Jenq-Haur Wang, Lee-Feng Chien
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004
Thomson Legal and Regulatory participated in the CLEF-2004 monolingual and bilingual tracks. Monolingual experiments included Portuguese, Russian and Finnish. We investigated a ne...
Isabelle Moulinier, Ken Williams
WIDM
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A comprehensive solution to the XML-to-relational mapping problem
The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Fang Du, Juliana Freire
OTM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Don't Mind Your Vocabulary: Data Sharing Across Heterogeneous Peers
The strong dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, coupled with the diversity of peer vocabularies, makes query processing in peer database systems a very challenging task. In this pape...
Mehedi Masud, Iluju Kiringa, Anastasios Kementsiet...
NLDB
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval by Feature Vectors
This paper investigates query translation in cross-lingual information retrieval, especially the challenges caused by ambiguity and polysemi. We base our ideas on feature vectors a...
Jeanine Lilleng, Stein L. Tomassen
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
DCU and UTA at ImageCLEFPhoto 2007
Dublin City University (DCU) and University of Tampere (UTA) participated in the ImageCLEF 2007 photographic ad-hoc retrieval task with several monolingual and bilingual runs. Our...
Anni Järvelin, Peter Wilkins, Tomasz Adamek, ...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Extending query translation to cross-language query expansion with markov chain models
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai