The performance of a machine translation-based english-indonesian CLIR system

Mirna Adriani, Ihsan Wahyu

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Abstract

We describe our participation in the Indonesian-English bilingual task of the 2005 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We translated an Indonesian query set into English using a commercial machine translation tool called Transtool and attempted to improve retrieval effectiveness using a query expansion technique. However, since our initial retrieval effectiveness was low, the query expansion technique had a negative impact on performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAccessing Multilingual Information Repositories - 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evalution Forum, CLEF 2005
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages151-154
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)354045697X, 9783540456971
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
EventAccessing Multilingual Information Repositories - 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evalution Forum, CLEF 2005 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 21 Sept 200523 Sept 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4022 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceAccessing Multilingual Information Repositories - 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evalution Forum, CLEF 2005
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period21/09/0523/09/05

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