New experiments in cross-language text retrieval at NMSU'S computing research lab
Mark M. Davis · Text REtrieval Conference · 1996
In Cross-Language Text Retrieval, queries in one language retrieve documents in other languages. Query translation is the least expensive approach to the retrieval task when compared to full document translation. The simple combinatorial properties of vector-based text retrieval systems simplify the translation task enormously, reducing most translation to the correct substitution of equivalents from a bilingual lexicon or corpus. New experiments are presented on methods for selecting among potential equivalents from a bilingual lexicon, including one fully-automatic method that achieves 73.5% of the performance of a monolingual system operating on the same retrieval task