CINDOR TREC-9 English-Chinese Evaluation

MNIS-TextWise Labs participated in the TREC-9 Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. The focus of our research for this participation has been on rapidly adding Chinese capabilities to CINDOR using tools for automatically generating a Chinese Conceptual Interlingua from existing lexical resources. For the TREC-9 evaluation we also built a version of our system which loosely integrates the CINDOR Conceptual Language Analysis process with the SMART retrieval system. This was motivated by the conclusions of our TREC-8 experiments which pointed to sub-standard retrieval based on the underlying retrieval algorithm. This integrated system has further allowed us to experiment with a range of approaches for crosslanguage retrieval, some specific to Chinese, which we have used in combination for our official TREC submissions. For evaluation, we submitted a monolingual Chinese run and a crosslanguage English-Chinese run. Analysis of results to date allow us to conclude that the aut...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Miguel E. Ruiz, Steve Rowe, Maurice Forrester, Paraic Sheridan
• Keywords: Chinese Conceptual Interlingua, Conceptual Interlingua, Cross-language Information Retrieval, TREC 2000, TREC 2008