Title :
Cross-language information retrieval using latent semantic indexing and self-organizing maps
Author :
Ampazis, Nikolaos ; Iakovaki, Helen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Financial & Manage. Eng., Aegean Univ., Chios, Greece
Abstract :
The present paper describes a method of fully automated cross-language information retrieval, which does not require any query translation. Namely, monolingual queries retrieve documents from a multilingual collection, which includes items from the query´s source language. This is achieved by a method, which combines the construction of a multilingual semantic space using latent semantic indexing (LSI) and the clustering ability of self-organizing maps (SOM) for the generation of multilingual semantic categories. Tests on an English-Greek corpus reveal the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.
Keywords :
indexing; information retrieval; natural language interfaces; self-organising feature maps; English-Greek corpus; cross-language information retrieval; latent semantic indexing; monolingual queries retrieve document; multilingual collection; multilingual semantic space; self-organizing map; Engineering management; Financial management; Histograms; Indexing; Information retrieval; Large scale integration; Robustness; Self organizing feature maps; Testing; Tongue;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Joint Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8359-1
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.2004.1380013