GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval

The use of domain-specific metadata (subject keywords) is tested for monolingual and bilingual retrieval on the GIRT social science collection. A new technique, Entry Vocabulary Modules, which adds subject keywords selected from the controlled vocabulary to the query, has been tested. As in previous years, we compare our techniques of thesaurus matching and Entry Vocabulary Modules to simple machine translation techniques in bilingual retrieval. A combination of machine translation and thesaurus matching achieves better results, whereas the

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Vivien Petras
• Keywords: Bilingual Retrieval, CLEF 2004, Entry Vocabulary Modules, Information Management, Subject Keywords