Research on Chinese-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval

With the rapid growing amount of available information, an important problem is formed, to match the user queries specified in one language against documents in another different language, i.e. cross-language information retrieval. Based on the work for cross-language information retrieval evaluation task in the 9^th Text Retrieval Conference, a Chinese-English cross-language information retrieval pattern has been constructed. In this pattern, Chinese-English query translation is adopted as the dominant strategy, Chinese queries are used as translation objects, and Chinese-English machine readable dictionaries are utilized as the important knowledge source to acquire correct translations. By combining English monolingual information retrieval module constructed, the Chinese-English cross-language information retrieval process can be implemented successfully.