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Resolving ambiguity for cross-language retrieval
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One of the main hurdles to improved CLIR effectiveness is resolving ambiguity associated with translation.Availability of resources is also a problem.First we present a technique based on co-occurrence statistics from unlinked corpora which can be used to reduce the ambiguity associated with phrasal and term translation.We then combine this method with other techniques for reducing ambiguity and achieve more than 90% monolingual effectiveness.Finally, we compare the co-occurrence method with parallel corpus and machine translation techniques and show that good retrieval effectiveness can be achieved without complex resources.
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- Ballesteros, L., & Croft, W. B.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1998-08
- Pages
- 64-71
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- W2161935199
- Cited by
- 309
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 24.40
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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