Title
NTCIR-3 Cross-Language IR Experiments at ULIS.
Abstract
This paper describes our retrieval system for the NTCIR-3 CLIR task, focusing on Japanese and En- glish. We integrate query and document translation methods to improve retrieval accuracy, and perform clustering to improve browsing efficiency. In query translation, to derive possible translations for user queries, we use dictionaries and perform a transliter- ation method, which generates translations for out-of- dictionary loanwords based on the Japanese phono- gram system. We also use a probabilistic model to re- solve translation/transliteration ambiguity to improve the query translation accuracy. We show the effective- ness of our system with respect to the NTCIR-3 J-J, E-E, J-E, and J-JE subtasks.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
NTCIR
ntcir-3,cross-language information retrieval,transliteration,query translation,probabilistic model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Query language,Information retrieval,Query expansion,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Statistical model,Cluster analysis,Ambiguity,Phonogram,Transliteration
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Atsushi Fujii148659.25
Tetsuya Ishikawa222630.46