Accurate Query Translation for Japanese-english Cross-language Information Retrieval

In this paper, a novel approach to translate queries from Japanese into English for the CLIR task is discussed. To get all possible English senses for every Japanese term, the online dictionary SPACEALC is utilized. The EWC semantic relatedness measure is used to select the most related meanings for the results of translation. This measure combines the Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis measure, the WordNet path measure and the mixed collocation index. The preliminary tests of the proposed technique are done utilizing the NTCIR data collection. The performance of retrieval is compared with the variant of retrieval using queries generated by Google Translate.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems

• Publication date

  2012-02-24

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5220/0003905902140219
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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