Use of Free On-line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering.

Zazo, Ángel F. and G.-Figuerola, Carlos and Alonso-Berrocal, José-Luis and Fernández-Marcial, Viviana . Use of Free On-line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering., 2006 In: Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 263-272. [Book chapter]

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Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering, in two aspects: in the formulation of queries and in the presentation of information. Two topic-document language pairs were used, Spanish-English and Spanish-French. For each of these, two groups of users were created, depending on the level of reading skills in document language. When machine translation of the queries was used directly in the search, the number of correct answers was quite high. Users only corrected 8% of the translations proposed. As regards the possibility of using machine translation to translate into Spanish the text passages shown to the user, we expected the search of the users with little knowledge of the target language to improve notably, but we found that this possibility was of little help in finding the correct answers for the questions posed in the experiment.

Item type:	Book chapter
Keywords:	Machine trasnlation ; traducción automática de preguntas ; Information retrieval
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > IZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user:	R. Gómez-Díaz
Date deposited:	07 Jan 2010
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14116

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Figuerola, C.G., Zazo, A., Alonso Berrocal, J.L., Rodríguez, E.: Interactive and bilingual question answering using term suggestion and passage retrieval. CLEF 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3491 (2005) 363–370

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