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Beyond English

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Author(s)

Donna K. Harman

Abstract

This chapter summarizes TREC work on retrieval for language other than English. TREC has explored a variety of tasks including both single language tasks (for example, retrieving Chinese documents using Chinese queries) and cross-language tasks (such as retrieving Arabic documents using English queries). The search engines used in TREC are largely language independent, though some benefit can be gained by exploiting language-specific knowledge.
Citation
Beyond English
Publisher Info
TREC Chapter to be published in: TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2005,

Keywords

information retrieval, natural languages, TREC

Citation

Harman, D. (2005), Beyond English, TREC Chapter to be published in: TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2005, (Accessed December 6, 2024)

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Created April 1, 2005, Updated February 17, 2017