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Return to Session IVb: Cross-language information retrieval
An under-explored question in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is to what degree the performance of CLIR methods depends on the availability of high-quality translation resources for particular domains. To address this issue, we evaluate several competitive CLIR methods - with different training corpora - on test documents in the medical domain. Our results show severe performance degradation when using a general-purpose training corpus or a commercial machine translation system (SYSTRAN), versus a domain-specific training corpus. A related unexplored question is whether we can improve CLIR performance by systematically analyzing training resources and optimally matching them to target collections. We start exploring this problem by suggesting a simple criterion for automatically matching training resources to target corpora. By using cosine similarity between training and target corpora as resource weights we obtained an average of 5.6% improvement over using all resources with no weights. The same metric yields 99.4% of the performance obtained when an oracle chooses the optimal resource every time.
@inproceedings{1009021, author = {Monica Rogati and Yiming Yang}, title = {Resource selection for domain-specific cross-lingual IR}, booktitle = {SIGIR '04: Proceedings of the 27th annual international conference on Research and development in information retrieval}, year = {2004}, isbn = {1-58113-881-4}, pages = {154--161}, location = {Sheffield, United Kingdom}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1008992.1009021}, publisher = {ACM Press}, }  ©2005 Association for Computing Machinery |
