Utilisation of Metadata Fields and Query Expansion in Cross-Lingual Search of User-Generated Internet Video

Recent years have seen significant efforts in the area of Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) for text retrieval. This work initially focused on formally published content, but more recently research has begun to concentrate on CLIR for informal social media content. However, despite the current expansion in online multimedia archives, there has been little work on CLIR for this content. While there has been some limited work on Cross-Language Video Retrieval (CLVR) for professional videos, such as documentaries or TV news broadcasts, there has to date, been no significant investigation of CLVR for the rapidly growing archives of informal user generated (UGC) content. Key differences between such UGC and professionally produced content are the nature and structure of the textual UGC metadata associated with it, as well as the form and quality of the content itself. In this setting, retrieval effectiveness may not only suffer from translation errors common to all CLIR tas...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: JAIR
• Authors: Ahmad Khwileh, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
• Keywords: JAIR 2016, Software Engineering