NTCIR CLIR Experiments at the University of Maryland
Abstract
This paper presents results for the Japanese/English cross-language information retrieval task on the NACSIS Test Collection. Two automatic dictionary-based query translation techniques were tried with four variants of the queries. The results indicate that longer queries outperform the required description only queries and that use of the first translation in the edict dictionary is comparable with the use of every translation. Japanese term segmentation posed no unusual problems, which contrasts sharply with results previously obtained for cross-language retrieval between Chinese and English.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA458793
Entities
People
- Douglas W. Oard
- Jianqiang Wang
Organizations
- University of Maryland