Chinese-Japanese cross language information retrieval
Md Maruf Hasan, Yūji Matsumoto · 2000
In this paper, we investigate cross language information retrieval (CLIR) for Chinese and Japanese texts utilizing the Han characters - common ideographs used in writing Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) languages. The Unicode encoding scheme, which encodes the superset of Han characters, is used as a common encoding platform to deal with the multilingual collection in a uniform manner. We discuss the importance of Han character semantics in document indexing and retrieval of the ideographic languages. We also analyse the baseline results of the cross language information retrieval using the common Han characters appeared in both Chinese and Japanese texts.