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Communications of the IBIMA
Research on Query Disambiguation and Expansion for Cross-Language
Information Retrieval
Fatiha Sadat
Volume 2010
(2010),
Article ID 438404,Communications of the IBIMA,11 pages.
DOI:10.5171/2010.438404
Abstract
Query
disambiguation is considered as one of the most important methods in
improving the effectiveness of information retrieval. By combining
query expansion with dictionary-based translation and statistics-based
disambiguation, in order to overcome query terms ambiguity, information
retrieval should become much more efficient. In the present paper, we
focus on query terms disambiguation via, a combined statistical method
both before and after translation, in order to avoid source language
ambiguity as well as incorrect selection of target translations. Query
expansion techniques through relevance feedback were performed prior to
either the first or the second disambiguation processes. We tested the
effectiveness of the proposed combined method, by an application to a
French-English Information Retrieval. Experiments involving TREC data
collection revealed the proposed disambiguation and expansion methods
to be highly effective.
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ISSN:1943-7765
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