Research on English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Abstract

With the rapidly growing amount of available information, an important issue arises of matching the user queries in one language against documents in another language, i.e. Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). Based on the work in CLIR evaluation task at the 9 th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), an English-Chinese CLIR system has been established. In this system, English-Chinese query translation is adopted as the dominant strategy; English queries are used as translation objects, and English-Chinese machine readable dictionary is utilized as the important knowledge source to acquire correct translations. By combining constructed Chinese monolingual IR system, the complete English-Chinese CLIR process is successfully implemented.

Assessing Query Translation Quality Using Back Translation in Hindi-English CLIR

“…Evaluation of machine translation (either a query or document) is a challenging task [55,56,57]. Various human judgments are used to evaluate the translation quality like fluency and adequacy [8,58].…”