Multilingual Information Retrieval
abbreviation(s): CLIR
definition: Cross-language information retrieval means using queries in one language to search for documents in a different language. Multilingual information retrieval is a broader term, which includes the case where queries in different languages are used, but only for searching documents in the same language.
See also the corresponding HLT Survey chapter: http://www.lt-world.org/hlt_survey/ltw-chapter8-5.pdf
related project(s):
- NET SEARCH III (MUNDIAL)
- Cross-Language Evalution Forum (CLEF)
- European Multilingual Information Retrieval (EMIR)
- MULINEX
- Linguistic Information for Free Text Retrieval (UPLIFT)
- Development of a Multimedia Information Dissemination and Transaction Tool (Twenty-One)
related organisation(s):
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Digital Library Research Group
- Eurospider Information Technology AG
- Language Technology Lab (LT Lab)
- Computing Research Lab
- XEROX Research Center Europe (XRCE)
related person(s):
- Mark Davis
- Hans Uszkoreit
- Djoerd Hiemstra
- Douglas Oard
- Carol Peters
related system(s) / resource(s):
- EMC
- Autonomy
relevant source(s):
- Wikipedia: Cross-language Information Retrieval
- Cross-Language Information Retrieval Resources
related publication(s):
Kluwer Academic Press. 1998.Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Grefenstette, Gregory.
Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Doug Oard, Anne Diekema.
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 33. 1998. 223-256.
Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium.
David Hull, Doug Oard.
AAAI Press. Technical Report SS-97-05. 1997.