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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A comparative study of query and document translation for cross-language information retrieval
%A Oard, Douglas W.
%S Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
%D 1998
%8 oct 28 31
%I Springer
%C Langhorne, PA, USA
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%X Cross-language retrieval systems use queries in one natural language to guide retrieval of documents that might be written in another. Acquisition and representation of translation knowledge plays a central role in this process. This paper explores the utility of two sources of translation knowledge for cross-language retrieval. We have implemented six query translation techniques that use bilingual term lists and one based on direct use of the translation output from an existing machine translation system; these are compared with a document translation technique that uses output from the same machine translation system. Average precision measures on a TREC collection suggest that arbitrarily selecting a single dictionary translation is typically no less effective than using every translation in the dictionary, that query translation using a machine translation system can achieve somewhat better effectiveness than simpler techniques, and that document translation may result in further improvements in retrieval effectiveness under some conditions.
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Markdown (Informal)

[A comparative study of query and document translation for cross-language information retrieval](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_42) (Oard, AMTA 1998)

• A comparative study of query and document translation for cross-language information retrieval (Oard, AMTA 1998)

ACL

• Douglas W. Oard. 1998. A comparative study of query and document translation for cross-language information retrieval. In Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 472–483, Langhorne, PA, USA. Springer.