Disambiguation and unknown term translation in cross language information retrieval

Zhou, Dong; Truran, Mark; Brailsford, Tim

Abstract

In this paper we present a report on our participation in the CLEF 2007 Chinese-English ad hoc bilingual track. We discuss a disambiguation strategy which employs a modified co-occurrence model to determine the most appropriate translation for a given query. This strategy is used alongside a pattern-based translation extraction method which addresses the ‘unknown term’ translation problem. Experimental results demonstrate that a combination of these two techniques substantially improves retrieval effectiveness when compared to various baseline systems that employ basic co-occurrence measures with no provision for out-of-vocabulary terms.

Citation

Zhou, D., Truran, M., & Brailsford, T. (2007). Disambiguation and unknown term translation in cross language information retrieval. In C. Peters, V. Jijkoun, T. Mandl, H. Müller, D. Oard, A. Peñas, …D. Santos (Eds.), Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval (64-71). Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science

• Conference Name: Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2007
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2007
• Deposit Date: Sep 17, 2018
• Journal: Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2007.
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5152
• Pages: 64-71
• Book Title: Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval
• ISBN: 9783540857594
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1030552
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_8