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SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Cross-Language Information Retrieval with the UMLS Metathesaurus
We investigate an automatic method for Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) that utilizes the multilingual UMLS Metathesaurus to translate Spanish and French natural languag...
David Eichmann, Miguel E. Ruiz, Padmini Srinivasan
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources
The quality of translation resources is arguably the most important factor affecting the performance of a cross-language information retrieval system. While many investigations ha...
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
DEXAW
2004
IEEE
104views Database» more  DEXAW 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval from Web Documents
Web documents present new challenges to conventional Information Retrieval (IR) technologies. This paper describes how these challenges are faced in FameIR, a multilingual multime...
Marta Gatius, Manuel Bertrán, Horacio Rodr&...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation
In this paper, we present our Hindi to English and Marathi to English CLIR systems developed as part of our participation in the CLEF 2007 Ad-Hoc Bilingual task. We take a query tr...
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Dam...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel