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Translating unknown cross-lingual queries in digital libraries using a web-based approach

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Jenq-Haur Wang,

Lee-Feng ChienAuthors Info & Claims

JCDL '04: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Pages 108 - 116

https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996378

Published: 07 June 2004 Publication History

Abstract

Users' cross-lingual queries to a digital library system might be short and not included in a common translation dictionary (unknown terms). In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of exploiting the Web as the corpus source to translate unknown query terms for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) in digital libraries. We propose a Web-based term translation approach to determine effective translations for unknown query terms by mining bilingual search-result pages obtained from a real Web search engine. This approach can enhance the construction of a domain-specific bilingual lexicon and benefit CLIR services in a digital library that only has monolingual document collections Very promising results have been obtained in generating effective translation equivalents for many unknown terms, including proper nouns, technical terms and Web query terms.

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Translating unknown cross-lingual queries in digital libraries using a web-based approach
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
  2. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives

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DOI:10.1145/996350

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University of Arizona
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Nanyang Technological University
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