MproIR - A cross-language Information retrieval

With the globalization of the world markets, the need for multilingual information processing increases, because the users are increasingly forced to deal with information available in multiple languages. Due to the fact that translation services are quite expensive, the multilingual society needs smart technologies to access foreign language documents at least to a degree which allows the user to make use of the information provided by them. These technologies should take into account that a user has often only some comprehension ability for a given foreign language. Recent developments in Information Retrieval, therefore, try to support users by providing so-called cross-language retrieval techniques. These systems allow the user to query information about a particular subject in their own language and retrieving relevant documents written in foreign languages. In this paper, the focus is on a cross-language informationretrieval component integrated into the multilingualinformation ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: RIAO
• Authors: Bärbel Ripplinger
• Keywords: Foreign Language Documents, Foreign Languages, RIAO 2000, RIAO 2007, So-called Cross-language Retrieval