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Transitive retrieval and triangulation have been proposed as ways to improve cross-language retrieval quality when translation resources have poor lexical coverage. We demonstrate that cross-language retrieval is viable for European languages with no translation resources at all; that transitive retrieval without translation does not suffer the drop-off in retrieval quality sometimes reported for transitive retrieval with translation; and that triangulation that combines multiple transitive runs with no translation can boost performance over direct translation-free retrieval.

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  • (2012)Translation techniques in cross-language information retrievalACM Computing Surveys10.1145/2379776.237977745:1(1-44)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2012

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SIGIR '04: Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
July 2004
624 pages
ISBN:1581138814
DOI:10.1145/1008992
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  1. CLIR
  2. cross-language retrieval
  3. transitive retrieval
  4. translation
  5. triangulation

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