Document Type
Article
Date
2000
Embargo Period
2-2012
Keywords
Bilingual information retrieval experiment, Microsoft SQL Server, Query translation, Machine-readable dictionary
Language
English
Disciplines
Information and Library Science
Description/Abstract
This paper describes an elementary bilingual information retrieval experiment. The experiment takes Dutch topics to retrieve relevant English documents using Microsoft SQL Server version 7.0. In order to cross the language barrier between query and document, the researchers use query translation by means of a machine-readable dictionary. The Dutch run was void of the typical natural language processing techniques such as parsing, stemming, or part of speech tagging. A monolingual run was carried out for comparison purposes. Due to limitations in time, retrieval system, translation method, and test collection, there is only a preliminary analysis of the results.
Recommended Citation
Diekema, Anne R. and Hsiao, Wen-Yuan, "Cross-Language Information Retrieval using Dutch Query Translation" (2000). iSchool Faculty Scholarship. Paper 18.
http://surface.syr.edu/istpub/18
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