Dictionary and Monolingual Corpus-based Query Translation for Basque-English CLIR

This paper deals with the main problems that arise in the query translation process in dictionary-based Cross-lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR): translation selection, presence of Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) terms and translation of Multi-Word Expressions (MWE). We analyse to what extent each problem affects the retrieval performance for the Basque-English pair of languages, and the improvement obtained when using parallel corpora free methods to address them. To tackle the translation selection problem we provide novel extensions of an already existing monolingual target co-occurrence-based method, the Out-Of-Vocabulary terms are dealt with by means of a cognate detection-based method and finally, for the Multi-Word Expression translation problem, a na

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Xabier Saralegi, Maddalen Lopez de Lacalle
• Keywords: Education, LREC 2010, Multi-word Expression, Translation Selection, Translation Selection Problem