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Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) has so far been studied with the assumption that some rich linguistic resources such as bilingual dictionaries or parallel corpora are available. But creation of such high quality resources is labor-intensive and they are not always at hand. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using only comparable corpora for CLIR, without relying on other linguistic resources. Comparable corpora are text documents in different languages that cover similar topics and are often naturally attainable (e.g., news articles published in different languages at the same time period). We adapt an existing cross-lingual word association mining method and incorporate it into a language modeling approach to cross-language retrieval. We investigate different strategies for estimating the target query language models. Our evaluation results on the TREC Arabic–English cross-lingual data show that the proposed method is effective for the CLIR task, demonstrating that it is feasible to perform cross-lingual information retrieval with just comparable corpora. 相似文献
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Prior-art search in patent retrieval is concerned with finding all existing patents relevant to a patent application. Since patents often appear in different languages, cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is an essential component of effective patent search. In recent years machine translation (MT) has become the dominant approach to translation in CLIR. Standard MT systems focus on generating proper translations that are morphologically and syntactically correct. Development of effective MT systems of this type requires large training resources and high computational power for training and translation. This is an important issue for patent CLIR where queries are typically very long sometimes taking the form of a full patent application, meaning that query translation using MT systems can be very slow. However, in contrast to MT, the focus for information retrieval (IR) is on the conceptual meaning of the search words regardless of their surface form, or the linguistic structure of the output. Thus much of the complexity of MT is not required for effective CLIR. We present an adapted MT technique specifically designed for CLIR. In this method IR text pre-processing in the form of stop word removal and stemming are applied to the MT training corpus prior to the training phase. Applying this step leads to a significant decrease in the MT computational and training resources requirements. Experimental application of the new approach to the cross language patent retrieval task from CLEF-IP 2010 shows that the new technique to be up to 23 times faster than standard MT for query translations, while maintaining IR effectiveness statistically indistinguishable from standard MT when large training resources are used. Furthermore the new method is significantly better than standard MT when only limited translation training resources are available, which can be a significant issue for translation in specialized domains. The new MT technique also enables patent document translation in a practical amount of time with a resulting significant improvement in the retrieval effectiveness. 相似文献
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The Effects of Conjunction, Facet Structure, and Dictionary Combinations in Concept-Based Cross-Language Retrieval 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
The paper studies concept-based cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). The document collection was a subset of the TREC collection. The test requests were formed from TREC's health related topics. As translation dictionaries the study used a general dictionary and a domain-specific (=medical) dictionary. The effects of translation method, conjunction, and facet order on the effectiveness of concept-based cross-language queries were studied, and concept-based structuring of cross-language queries was compared to mechanical structuring based on the output of dictionaries. The performance of translated Finnish queries against English documents was compared to the performance of original English queries against the English documents, and the performance of different CLIR query types was compared with one another. No major difference was found between concept-based and mechanical structuring. The best translation method was a simultaneous look-up in the medical dictionary and the general dictionary, in which case cross-language queries performed as well as the original English queries. The results showed that especially at high exhaustivity (the number of mutually restrictive concepts in a request) levels cross-language queries perform well in relation to monolingual queries. This suggests that conjunction disambiguates cross-language queries. An extensive study was made of the relative importance of the concepts of requests. On the basis of the classification data of request concepts it was shown how the order of facets in a query affects cross-language as well as monolingual queries. 相似文献
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Focused web crawling in the acquisition of comparable corpora 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Tuomas Talvensaari Ari Pirkola Kalervo Järvelin Martti Juhola Jorma Laurikkala 《Information Retrieval》2008,11(5):427-445
Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) resources, such as dictionaries and parallel corpora, are scarce for special domains.
Obtaining comparable corpora automatically for such domains could be an answer to this problem. The Web, with its vast volumes
of data, offers a natural source for this. We experimented with focused crawling as a means to acquire comparable corpora
in the genomics domain. The acquired corpora were used to statistically translate domain-specific words. The same words were
also translated using a high-quality, but non-genomics-related parallel corpus, which fared considerably worse. We also evaluated
our system with standard information retrieval (IR) experiments, combining statistical translation using the Web corpora with
dictionary-based translation. The results showed improvement over pure dictionary-based translation. Therefore, mining the
Web for comparable corpora seems promising. 相似文献
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We present a system for multilingual information retrieval that allows users to formulate queries in their preferred language and retrieve relevant information from a collection containing documents in multiple languages. The system is based on a process of document level alignments, where documents of different languages are paired according to their similarity. The resulting mapping allows us to produce a multilingual comparable corpus. Such a corpus has multiple interesting applications. It allows us to build a data structure for query translation in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). Moreover, we also perform pseudo relevance feedback on the alignments to improve our retrieval results. And finally, multiple retrieval runs can be merged into one unified result list. The resulting system is inexpensive, adaptable to domain-specific collections and new languages and has performed very well at the TREC-7 conference CLIR system comparison. 相似文献
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Fernando Martínez-Santiago L. Alfonso Ureña-López Maite Martín-Valdivia 《Information Retrieval》2006,9(1):71-93
A usual strategy to implement CLIR (Cross-Language Information Retrieval) systems is the so-called query translation approach.
The user query is translated for each language present in the multilingual collection in order to compute an independent monolingual
information retrieval process per language. Thus, this approach divides documents according to language. In this way, we obtain
as many different collections as languages. After searching in these corpora and obtaining a result list per language, we
must merge them in order to provide a single list of retrieved articles.
In this paper, we propose an approach to obtain a single list of relevant documents for CLIR systems driven by query translation.
This approach, which we call 2-step RSV (RSV: Retrieval Status Value), is based on the re-indexing of the retrieval documents
according to the query vocabulary, and it performs noticeably better than traditional methods.
The proposed method requires query vocabulary alignment: given a word for a given query, we must know the translation or translations
to the other languages. Because this is not always possible, we have researched on a mixed model. This mixed model is applied
in order to deal with queries with partial word-level alignment. The results prove that even in this scenario, 2-step RSV
performs better than traditional merging methods. 相似文献
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This work reviews information retrieval systems developed at ITC-irst which were evaluated through several tracks of CLEF, during the last three years. The presentation tries to follow the progress made over time in developing new statistical models first for monolingual information retrieval, then for cross-language information retrieval. Besides describing the underlying theory, performance of monolingual and bilingual information retrieval models are reported, respectively, on Italian monolingual tracks and Italian-English bilingual tracks of CLEF. Monolingual systems by ITC-irst performed consistently well in all the official evaluations, while the bilingual system ranked in CLEF 2002 just behind competitors using commercial machine translation engines. However, by experimentally comparing our statistical topic translation model against a state-of-the-art commercial system, no statistically significant difference in retrieval performance could be measured on a larger set of queries. 相似文献
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基于主题图的英汉跨语言检索模型构建 总被引：4，自引：3，他引：1
针对现有跨语言检索模型普遍存在的翻译准确性差、效率低、成本高等不足,在深入分析主题图技术在揭示语词概念之间的语义关系和多语言支持等方面的优越性能的基础上,提出一个基于主题图的英汉跨语言检索模型,该模型采用索引翻译的策略来实现跨语言检索。该模型的突出特点是能够在提高翻译准确性的同时,有效降低翻译成本。此外,实现起来也比较简单。 相似文献
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This study develops regression models for predicting the performance of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). The model assumes that CLIR performance can be explained by two factors: (1) the ease of search inherent in each query and (2) the translation quality in the process of CLIR systems. As operational variables, monolingual information retrieval (IR) performance is used for measuring the ease of search, and the well-known evaluation metric BLEU is used to measure the translation quality. This study also proposes an alternative metric, weighted average for matched unigrams (WAMU), which is tailored to gauging translation quality for special IR purposes. The data for regression analysis are obtained from a retrieval experiment of English-to-Italian bilingual searches using the CLEF 2003 test collection. The CLIR and monolingual IR performances are measured by average precision score. The result shows that the proposed regression model can explain about 60% of the variation in CLIR performance, and WAMU has more predictive power than BLEU. A back translation method for applying the regression model to operational CLIR systems in real situations is discussed. 相似文献
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交互式跨语言信息检索是信息检索的一个重要分支。在分析交互式跨语言信息检索过程、评价指标、用户行为进展等理论研究基础上,设计一个让用户参与跨语言信息检索全过程的用户检索实验。实验结果表明:用户检索词主要来自检索主题的标题;用户判断文档相关性的准确率较高;目标语言文档全文、译文摘要、译文全文都是用户认可的判断依据;翻译优化方法以及翻译优化与查询扩展的结合方法在用户交互环境下非常有效;用户对于反馈后的翻译仍然愿意做进一步选择;用户对于与跨语言信息检索系统进行交互是有需求并认可的。用户行为分析有助于指导交互式跨语言信息检索系统的设计与实践。 相似文献
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《Library & information science research》2005,27(2):249-263
The problem of language in Web searching has been discussed primarily in the area of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). However, much CLIR research centers on investigation of the effectiveness of automatic translation techniques. The case study reported here explored bilingual user behaviors, perceptions, and preferences with respect to the capability of the Web as a multilingual information resource. Twenty-eight bilingual academic users from Myongji University in Korea were recruited for the study. Findings show that the subjects did not use Web search engines as multilingual tools. For search queries, they selected a language that represents their information need most accurately depending on the types of information task rather than choosing their first language. Subjects expressed concerns about the accuracy of machine translation of scholarly terminologies and preferred to have user control over multilingual Web searches. 相似文献
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Research on cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) has typically been restricted to settings using binary relevance assessments.
In this paper, we present evaluation results for dictionary-based CLIR using graded relevance assessments in a best match
retrieval environment. A text database containing newspaper articles and a related set of 35 search topics were used in the
tests. First, monolingual baseline queries were automatically formed from the topics. Secondly, source language topics (in
English, German, and Swedish) were automatically translated into the target language (Finnish), using structured target queries.
The effectiveness of the translated queries was compared to that of the monolingual queries. Thirdly, pseudo-relevance feedback
was used to expand the original target queries. CLIR performance was evaluated using three relevance thresholds: stringent,
regular, and liberal. When regular or liberal threshold was used, a reasonable performance was achieved. Using stringent threshold,
equally high performance could not be achieved. On all the relevance thresholds the performance of the translated queries
was successfully raised by pseudo-relevance feedback based query expansion. However, the performance of the stringent threshold
in relation to the other thresholds could not be raised by this method. 相似文献
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Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Problems, Methods, and Research Findings 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2
Ari Pirkola Turid Hedlund Heikki Keskustalo Kalervo Järvelin 《Information Retrieval》2001,4(3-4):209-230
This paper reviews literature on dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and presents CLIR research done at the University of Tampere (UTA). The main problems associated with dictionary-based CLIR, as well as appropriate methods to deal with the problems are discussed. We will present the structured query model by Pirkola and report findings for four different language pairs concerning the effectiveness of query structuring. The architecture of our automatic query translation and construction system is presented. 相似文献
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The application of word sense disambiguation (WSD) techniques to information retrieval (IR) has yet to provide convincing retrieval results. Major obstacles to effective WSD in IR include coverage and granularity problems of word sense inventories, sparsity of document context, and limited information provided by short queries. In this paper, to alleviate these issues, we propose the construction of latent context models for terms using latent Dirichlet allocation. We propose building one latent context per word, using a well principled representation of local context based on word features. In particular, context words are weighted using a decaying function according to their distance to the target word, which is learnt from data in an unsupervised manner. The resulting latent features are used to discriminate word contexts, so as to constrict query’s semantic scope. Consistent and substantial improvements, including on difficult queries, are observed on TREC test collections, and the techniques combines well with blind relevance feedback. Compared to traditional topic modeling, WSD and positional indexing techniques, the proposed retrieval model is more effective and scales well on large-scale collections. 相似文献
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Using Statistical Term Similarity for Sense Disambiguation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Mirna Adriani 《Information Retrieval》2000,2(1):71-82
With the increasing availability of machine-readable bilingual dictionaries, dictionary-based automatic query translation has become a viable approach to Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). In this approach, resolving term ambiguity is a crucial step. We propose a sense disambiguation technique based on a term-similarity measure for selecting the right translation sense of a query term. In addition, we apply a query expansion technique which is also based on the term similarity measure to improve the effectiveness of the translation queries. The results of our Indonesian to English and English to Indonesian CLIR experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the sense disambiguation technique. As for the query expansion technique, it is shown to be effective as long as the term ambiguity in the queries has been resolved. In the effort to solve the term ambiguity problem, we discovered that differences in the pattern of word-formation between the two languages render query translations from one language to the other difficult. 相似文献
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认为多语言信息存取（MLIA）是数字图书馆面临的一个重要问题,而跨语言信息搜索（CLIR）则是MLIA的主要应用,CLIR中以用户为中心的研究相比以技术为中心的研究少但正日益受到重视。目前CLIR中的用户需求、用户行为、用户体验或用户满意度等的定性或定量研究已发展为交互式跨语言信息搜索即interactive CLIR（iCLIR）。从系统的角度对国内外主要的iCLIR研究进行对比,揭示其用户交互技术策略,分析其翻译消歧、查询优化等核心技术,预测未来iCLIR的发展趋势。 相似文献
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[目的/意义] 构建一个基于多语言本体的跨语言信息检索模型,有助于用户通过该模型使用自己熟悉的语言来获取不同语种的信息资源。[方法/过程] 通过本体设计及检索模型功能模块设计建立一个基于数字出版领域本体的中英跨语言信息检索模型,并利用Java语言及Lucene搜索引擎架构对该模型进行编程实现。[结果/结论] 多语言领域本体具有明确、形式化、共享、概念化、结构清晰等特征,可以作为语义层应用于跨语言信息检索系统之中,实现信息资源的语义表达。经测试,本文构建的模型能够较好地实现分词、查询扩展和语义关联等功能,促进跨语言信息检索向语义层次发展。 相似文献
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面对日益膨胀的多语种信息资源,跨语言信息检索已成为实现全球知识存取和共享的关键技术手段。构建一个实用型的跨语言检索查询翻译接口,可方便地嵌入任意的信息检索平台,扩展现有信息检索平台的多语言信息处理能力。该查询翻译接口采用基于最长短语、查询分类和概率词典等多种翻译消歧策略,并从查询翻译的准确性和接口的运行效率两个角度对构建的查询翻译接口进行评测,实验结果验证所采用方法具有可行性。 相似文献