Proper Name Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Recently, language barrier becomes the major problem for people to search, retrieve, and understand WWW documents in different languages. This paper deals with query translation issue in cross-language information retrieval, proper names in particular. Models for name identification, name translation and name searching are presented. The recall rates and the precision rates for the identification of Chinese organization names, person names and location names under MET data are (76.67%, 79.33%), (87.33%, 82.33%) and (77.00%, 82.00%), respectively. In name

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Hsin-Hsi Chen, Sheng-Jie Huang, Yung-Wei Ding, Shih-Chung Tsai
• Keywords: ACL 1998, ACL 2007, Chinese Organization Names, Cross-language Information Retrieval, Query Translation Issue