CLIR Experiments at Maryland for TREC-2002: Evidence combination for Arabic-English retrieval

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dc.contributor.authorDarwish, Kareemen_US
dc.contributor.authorOard, Douglas W.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-05-31T23:26:41Z
dc.date.available2004-05-31T23:26:41Z
dc.date.created2003-02en_US
dc.date.issued2003-04-04en_US
dc.description.abstractThe focus of the experiments reported in this paper was techniques for combining evidence for cross-language retrieval, searching Arabic documents using English queries. Evidence from multiple sources of translation knowledge was combined to estimate translation probabilities, and four techniques for estimating query-language term weights from document-language evidence were tried. A new technique that exploits translation probability information was found to outperform a comparable technique in which that information was not used. Comparative results for three variants of Arabic ^\light^] stemming are also presented. A simple variant of an existing stemming algorithm was found to result in significantly better retrieval effectiveness. UMIACS-TR-2003-26 LAMP-TR-101en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1268
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTech Reports in Computer Science and Engineeringen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUMIACS Technical Reportsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUM Computer Science Department; CS-TR-4456en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUMIACS; UMIACS-TR-2003-26en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLAMP-TR-101en_US
dc.titleCLIR Experiments at Maryland for TREC-2002: Evidence combination for Arabic-English retrievalen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US

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