Querying Across Languages: A Dictionary-Based Approach to Multilingual Information Retrieval.

David A. Hull, Gregory Grefenstette: Querying Across Languages: A Dictionary-Based Approach to Multilingual Information Retrieval. SIGIR 1996: 49-57

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/HullG96,
  author    = {David A. Hull and
               Gregory Grefenstette},
  editor    = {Hans-Peter Frei and
               Donna Harman and
               Peter Sch{\"a}uble and
               Ross Wilkinson},
  title     = {Querying Across Languages: A Dictionary-Based Approach to Multilingual
               Information Retrieval},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
               on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'96,
               August 18-22, 1996, Zurich, Switzerland (Special Issue of the
               SIGIR Forum)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1996},
  isbn      = {0-89791-792-8},
  pages     = {49-57},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/HullG96.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/96},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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Abstract

The multilingual information retrieval system of the future will need to be able to retrieve documents across language boundaries. This extension of the classical IR problem is particularly challenging, as significant resources are required to perform query translation. At Xerox, we are working to build a multilingual IR system and conducting a series of experiments to understand what factors are most important in making the system work. Using translated queries and a bilingual transfer dictionary, we have learned that cross-lartguage multilingual IR is feasible, although performance lags considerably behind the monolingual standard. The experiments suggest that correct identification and translation of multi-word terminology is the single most important source of error in the system, although ambiguity in translation also contributes to poor performance.

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Hans-Peter Frei, Donna Harman, Peter Schäuble, Ross Wilkinson (Eds.): Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'96, August 18-22, 1996, Zurich, Switzerland (Special Issue of the SIGIR Forum). ACM 1996, ISBN 0-89791-792-8
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