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SIGIR '05: Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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Translation for cross-language information retrieval need not be word-based. We show that character n-grams in one language can be 'translated' into character n-grams of another language. We demonstrate that such translations produce retrieval results on par with, and often exceeding, those of word-based and stem-based translation.

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McNamee PMayfield JNicholas C(2009)Translation corpus source and size in bilingual retrievalProceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers10.5555/1620853.1620862(25-28)Online publication date: 31-May-2009
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McNamee P(2009)JHU Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2008Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_21(170-177)Online publication date: 2009
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McNamee P(2008)JHU ad hoc experiments at CLEF 2008Proceedings of the 9th Cross-language evaluation forum conference on Evaluating systems for multilingual and multimodal information access10.5555/1813809.1813836(170-177)Online publication date: 17-Sep-2008
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Translating pieces of words
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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DOI:10.1145/1076034

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