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Improved Cross-Language Retrieval using Backoff Translation (2007)

Abstract
The limited coverage of available translation lexicons can pose a serious challenge in some cross-language information retrieval applications. We present two techniques for combining evidence from dictionary-based and corpus-based translation lexicons, and show that backoff translation outperforms a technique based on merging lexicons.

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Download http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA459769
Contributors MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK INST FOR ADVANCED COMPUTER STUDIES
Repository Defense Technical Information Center OAI-PMH Repository (United States)
Keywords INFORMATION SCIENCE, *INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, TRANSLATIONS, VOCABULARY, LEXICOGRAPHY
Language eng