This paper presents empirical results in cross-lingual information retrieval using English
queries to access Chinese documents (TREC-5 and TREC-6) and Spanish documents …

This work proposes and evaluates a probabilistic cross-lingual retrieval system. The system
uses a generative model to estimate the probability that a document in one language is …

Finding a proper distribution of translation probabilities is one of the most important factors
impacting the effectiveness of a cross-language information retrieval system. In this paper …

We used basically the same retrieval system we used in TREC 2001. Our experiments
featured a different method for estimating general English probabilities, two additional …

This paper presents a novel statistical model for cross-language information retrieval. Given
a written query in the source language, documents in the target language are ranked by …

This paper describes two experiments in the domain of Cross Language Information
Retrieval. Our basic approach is to translate queries word by word using machine readable …

There is an increasing need for document search mechanisms capable of matching a
natural language query with documents written in a different language. Recently, we …

Dictionary-based cross-language text retrieval systems must find a way to deal with the
ambiguity associated with language translation. In this chapter, we claim that the use of …

One key to cross-language information retrieval is how to efficiently resolve the translation
ambiguity of queries given their short length. This problem is even more challenging when …

This paper introduces a general framework for the use of translation probabilities in cross-
language information retrieval based on the notion that information retrieval fundamentally …