Cross-language information retrieval

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is a subfield of information retrieval dealing with retrieving information written in a language different from the language of the user's query. For example, a user may pose their query in English but retrieve relevant documents written in French. To do so, most of CLIR systems use translation techniques.[1] CLIR techniques can be classified into different categories based on different translation resources:

The first workshop on CLIR was held in Zürich during the SIGIR-96 conference.[2] Workshops have been held yearly since 2000 at the meetings of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF).

The term "cross-language information retrieval" has many synonyms, of which the following are perhaps the most frequent: cross-lingual information retrieval, translingual information retrieval, multilingual information retrieval. The term "multilingual information retrieval" refers to CLIR in general, but it also has a specific meaning of cross-language information retrieval where a document collection is multilingual.

Google Search had a cross-language search feature that was removed in 2013.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Versatile question answering systems: seeing in synthesis", Mittal et al., IJIIDS, 5(2), 119-142, 2011.
  2. ↑ The proceedings of this workshop can be found in the book Cross-Language Information Retrieval (Grefenstette, ed; Kluwer, 1998) ISBN 0-7923-8122-X.
  3. ↑ "Google Drops "Translated Foreign Pages" Search Option Due To Lack Of Use". 20 May 2013.

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