A study of using an Out-Of-Box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR

Dan Wu; Daqing He; Heng Ji; Ralph Grishman

doi:10.1145/1460027.1460038

A study of using an Out-Of-Box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR

Dan Wu, Daqing He, Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman

Computer Science

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Abstract

Recent availability of commercial online machine translation (MT) systems makes it possible for layman Web users to utilize the MT capability for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). To study the effectiveness of using MT for query translation, we conducted a set of experiments using Google Translate, an online MT system provided by Google, for translating queries in CLIR. The experiments show that MT is an excellent tool for the query translation task, and with the help of relevance feedback, it can achieve significant improvement over the monolingual baseline. The MT based query translation not only works for long queries, but is also effective for the short Web queries.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceeding of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008
Pages	71-76
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1460027.1460038
State	Published - 2008
Event	2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008 - Napa Valley, CA, United States Duration: Oct 30 2008 → Oct 30 2008

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Name	International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

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Other	2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008
Country/Territory	United States
City	Napa Valley, CA
Period	10/30/08 → 10/30/08

Keywords

Cross-language information retrieval
Machine translation
Query expansion
Query translation
Relevance feedback

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Decision Sciences
General Business, Management and Accounting

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Wu, D., He, D., Ji, H., & Grishman, R. (2008). A study of using an Out-Of-Box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR. In Proceeding of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008 (pp. 71-76). (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/1460027.1460038

A study of using an Out-Of-Box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR. / Wu, Dan; He, Daqing; Ji, Heng et al.
Proceeding of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008. 2008. p. 71-76 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Wu, D, He, D, Ji, H & Grishman, R 2008, A study of using an Out-Of-Box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR. in Proceeding of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, pp. 71-76, 2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, CA, United States, 10/30/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1460027.1460038

Wu D, He D, Ji H, Grishman R. A study of using an Out-Of-Box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR. In Proceeding of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008. 2008. p. 71-76. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/1460027.1460038

Wu, Dan ; He, Daqing ; Ji, Heng et al. / A study of using an Out-Of-Box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR. Proceeding of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS'08, Co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008. 2008. pp. 71-76 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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