Abstract. Using top-ranked documents in response to a query has been shown to be an effective approach to improve the quality of query translation in dictionarybased cross-language information retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new method for dictionary-based query translation based on dimension projection of embedded vectors from the pseudo-relevant documents in the source language to their equivalents in the target language. To this end, first we learn low-dimensional vectors of the words in the pseudo-relevant collections separately and then aim to find a query-dependent transformation matrix between the vectors of translation pairs appeared in the collections. At the next step, representation of each query term is projected to the target language and then, after using a softmax function, a querydependent translation model is built. Finally, the model is used for query translation. Our experiments on four CLEF collections in French, Spanish, German, and Italian demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms a word embedding baseline based on bilingual shuffling and a further number of competitive baselines. The proposed method reaches up to 87% performance of machine translation (MT) in short queries and considerable improvements in verbose queries.
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