Improved Cross-Language Retrieval using Backoff TranslationOpen Website

2001 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)HLT 2001Readers: Everyone
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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