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Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation

TitleDynamic Lexica for Query Translation
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsKarlgren J, Sahlgren M, Järvinen T, Cöster R
EditorPeters C, Clough P, Gonzalo J, Jones G, Kluck M, Magnini B
Book TitleMultilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images
Series TitleLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume3491
Pagination920-920
PublisherSpringer
CityBerlin / Heidelberg
ISBN978-3-540-27420-9
Abstract

This experiment tests a simple, scalable, and effective approach to building a domain-specific translation lexicon using distributional statistics over parallellized bilingual corpora. A bilingual lexicon is extracted from aligned Swedish-French data, used to translate CLEF topics from Swedish to French, which resulting French queries are then in turn used to retrieve documents from the French language CLEF collection. The results give 34 of fifty queries on or above median for the precision at 1000 documents recall oriented score; with many of the errors possible to handle by the use of string-matching and cognate search. We conclude that the approach presented here is a simple and efficient component in an automatic query translation system.

URLhttp://clef-campaign.org/2004/working_notes/WorkingNotes2004/14.pdf
DOI10.1007/11519645_15