Query and document translation for English-Indonesian cross language IR

Herika Hayurani, Syandra Sari, Mirna Adriani

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Abstract

We present a report on our participation in the Indonesian-English ad hoc bilingual task of the 2006 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). This year we compare the use of several language resources to translate Indonesian queries into English. We used several readable machine dictionaries to perform the translation. We also used two machine translation techniques to translate the Indonesian queries. In addition to translating an Indonesian query set into English, we also translated English documents into Indonesian using the machine readable dictionaries and a commercial machine translation tool. The results show performing the task by translating the queries is better than translating the documents. Combining several dictionaries produced better result than only using one dictionary. However, the query expansion that we applied to the translated queries using the dictionaries reduced the retrieval effectiveness of the queries.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEvaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages57-61
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9783540749981
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006 - Alicante, Spain
Duration: 20 Sept 200622 Sept 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4730 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006
Country/TerritorySpain
CityAlicante
Period20/09/0622/09/06

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