Retrieval of bilingual Spanish-English information by means of a standard automatic translation system

G.-Figuerola, Carlos, Alonso-Berrocal, José-Luis, Zazo, Ángel F. and Gómez-Díaz, Raquel . Retrieval of bilingual Spanish-English information by means of a standard automatic translation system., 2000 In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) First Results of the CLEF 2000 Cross-Language Text Retrieval System Evaluation Campaign. Working Notes for the CLEF 2000 Workshop. 22 September, Lisbon,Portugal. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 65-68. [Book chapter]

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English abstract

This paper describes our participation in bilingual retrieval (queries in Spanish on documents in English), by means of an information retrieval system based on the vector model. The queries, formulated in Spanish, were translated into English by means of a commercial automatic translation system; the terms extracted from the resulting translations were filtered in order to get rid of empty words and then they were normalised by stemming. Results are poorer than those obtained through monolingual retrieval with the original queries in English slightly above 15%.

Item type: Book chapter
Keywords: Bilingual Retrieval , Information retrieval , vector model
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology > LM. Automatic text retrieval.
L. Information technology and library technology > LL. Automated language processing.
Depositing user: R. Gómez-Díaz
Date deposited: 11 Dec 2009
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13967

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