Term Translation Validation by Retrieving Bi-terms

For our second participation to the Question Answering task of CLEF, we kept last year’s system named MUSCLEF, which uses two translation strategies implemented in two modules. The multilingual module MUSQAT analyzes the French questions, translates “interesting parts”, and then uses these translated terms to search the reference collection. The second strategy consists in translating the question in English and applying QALC our existing English module. Our purpose in this paper is to analyze term translations and propose a mechanism for selecting correct ones. The manual evaluation of bi-terms translation leads us to the conclusion that bi-term translations found in corpus can confirm mono-term translations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat
• Keywords: CLEF 2005, Multilingual Module Musqat, Question Answering Task, Translation Strategies