Dictionary Based Translation

The limited coverageof availabletranslation lexiconscan posea se- rious challenge in some cross-language information retrieval appli- cations. We present two techniques for combining evidence from dictionary-based and corpus-based translation lexicons, and …...

Dictionary-based translation is a traditional approach in use by cross-language information retrieval systems. However, significant performance degradation is often observed when queries contain words that do not appear in the …...

AbstractThis paper deals with the main problems that arise in the query translation process in dictionary-based Cross-lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR): translation selection, presence of Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) terms and translation of …...