Title :
On Arabic-English cross-language information retrieval: a machine translation approach
Author :
Aljlayl, Mohammed ; Frieder, Ophir ; Grossman, David
Author_Institution :
Inf. Retrieval Lab., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
Machine translation (MT) is an automatic process that translates from one human language to another by using context information. We empirically evaluate the use of an MT-based approach for query translation in an Arabic-English cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) system, called ALKAFI, using the TREC-7 and TREC-9 topics and collections. The effect of the query length on the MT performance is also investigated in order to explore how much context is actually required for successful MT processing.
Keywords :
information retrieval; language translation; software performance evaluation; ALKAFI; Arabic-English cross-language information retrieval; TREC-7 collections; TREC-7 topics; TREC-9 collections; TREC-9 topics; context information; language translation; machine translation system; query length; query translation; translation performance; Demography; Dictionaries; Humans; Information retrieval; Laboratories; Natural languages; Shape; Speech; Tongue; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1506-1
DOI :
10.1109/ITCC.2002.1000351
