A comparison of query translation methods for English-Japanese cross-language information retrieval

Gareth Jones; Tetsuya Sakai; Nigel Collier; Akira Kumano; Kazuo Sumita

doi:10.1145/312624.312690

A comparison of query translation methods for English-Japanese cross-language information retrieval

Gareth Jones, Tetsuya Sakai, Nigel Collier, Akira Kumano, Kazuo Sumita

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In this paper we report results of an investigation into English-Japanese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) comparing a number of query translation methods. Results from experiments using the standard BMIR-J2 Japanese collection suggest that full machine translation (MT) can outperform popular dictionary-based query translation methods and further that in this context MT is largely robust to queries with little linguistic structure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	269-270
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	1581130961, 9781581130966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/312624.312690
Publication status	Published - 1999 Aug 1
Externally published	Yes
Event	22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999 - Berkeley, United States Duration: 1999 Aug 15 → 1999 Aug 19

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Name	Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999

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Other	22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999
Country/Territory	United States
City	Berkeley
Period	99/8/15 → 99/8/19

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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Information Systems

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Jones, G., Sakai, T., Collier, N., Kumano, A., & Sumita, K. (1999). A comparison of query translation methods for English-Japanese cross-language information retrieval. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999 (pp. 269-270). (Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/312624.312690

A comparison of query translation methods for English-Japanese cross-language information retrieval. / Jones, Gareth; Sakai, Tetsuya; Collier, Nigel et al.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 1999. p. 269-270 (Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Jones, G, Sakai, T, Collier, N, Kumano, A & Sumita, K 1999, A comparison of query translation methods for English-Japanese cross-language information retrieval. in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 269-270, 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999, Berkeley, United States, 99/8/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/312624.312690

Jones G, Sakai T, Collier N, Kumano A, Sumita K. A comparison of query translation methods for English-Japanese cross-language information retrieval. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 1999. p. 269-270. (Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999). doi: 10.1145/312624.312690

Jones, Gareth ; Sakai, Tetsuya ; Collier, Nigel et al. / A comparison of query translation methods for English-Japanese cross-language information retrieval. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 1999. pp. 269-270 (Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999).

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