Cross Language Information Retrieval using Multilingual Ontology as Translation and Query Expansion Base

This paper reports an experiment to evaluate a Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) system that uses a multilingual ontology to improve query translation in the travel domain. The ontology-based approach significantly outperformed the Machine Readable Dictionary translation baseline using Mean Average Precision as a metric in a user-centered experiment.

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Main Authors: Abusalah,Mustafa, Tait,John, Oakes,Michael
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Cómputo 2009
Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-90442009000200003
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