Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) deals with retrieving relevant documents in one
language using queries expressed in another language. As CLIR tools rely on translation …

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 …

This paper examines query intent (or domain) classification as a proxy for user information
need and its use in improving the performance of cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) …