In this paper we review studies of the growth of the Internet and technologies that are useful
for information search and retrieval on the Web. We present data on the Internet from several …

This paper reviews literature on dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval
(CLIR) and presents CLIR research done at the University of Tampere (UTA). The main …

Because of the world wide web, information retrieval systems are now used by millions of
untrained users all over the world. The search engines that perform the information retrieval …

The multilingual information retrieval system of the future will need to be able to retrieve
documents across language boundaries. This extension of the classical IR problem is …

Search for information is no longer exclusively limited within the native language of the user,
but is more and more extended to other languages. This gives rise to the problem of cross …

In this study, the effects of query structure and various setups of translation dictionaries on
the performance of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) were tested. The document …

In the past several years, Arabic Information Retrieval (IR) has garnered significant attention.
The main research interests have focused on retrieval of formal language, mostly in the …

In the 21st century, digital libraries will have a tremendous positive impact on education, as
sharing of learning resources increases, supporting not only distance education but also on …

Parallel texts (bitexts) have properties that distinguish them from other kinds of parallel data.
First, most words translate to only one other word. Second, bitext correspondence is noisy …

This book lays out the theory and the practical techniques for discovering and applying
translational equivalence at the lexical level. Parallel texts (bitexts) are a goldmine of …