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Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004)

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One of the aims of EuroWordNet (EWN) was to provide a resource for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). In this paper we present experiments which test the usefulness of EWN for this purpose via a formal evaluation using the Spanish queries from the TREC6 CLIR test set. All CLIR systems using bilingual dictionaries must find a way of dealing with multiple translations and we employ a Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) algorithm for this purpose. It was found that this algorithm achieved only around 50% correct disambiguation when compared with manual judgement, however, retrieval performance using the senses it returned was 90% of that recorded using manually disambiguated queries.

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  1. University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP, United Kingdom

    Paul Clough & Mark Stevenson

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  1. School of Computing and Technology, David Goldman Informatics Centre, University of Sunderland, St. Peter’s Campus, SR6 0DD, Sunderland, UK

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Clough, P., Stevenson, M. (2004). Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation. In: McDonald, S., Tait, J. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2997. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24752-4_24

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