Authors
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson.
book
Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems, CLEF 2003. Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume: 3237. Pages: 152-165. 2004. [Springer]
abstract
We investigate the effectiveness of language-dependent approaches to document retrieval, such as stemming and decompounding, and constrast them with language-independent approaches, such as character n-gramming. In order to reap the benefits of more than one type of approach, we also consider the effectiveness of the combination of both types of approaches. We focus on document retrieval in nine European languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. We look at four different information retrieval tasks: monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, and domain-specific retrieval. The experimental evidence is obtained using the 2003 test suite of the cross-language evaluation forum (CLEF).
bibtex
@inproceedings{kamps04language-dependent,
author = {Jaap Kamps and Christof Monz and Maarten de Rijke and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson},
title = {Language-dependent and Language-independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval},
year = {2004},
booktitle = {Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems, CLEF 2003},
pages = {152--165},
publisher = {Springer}
}