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Polibits
On-line version ISSN 1870-9044
Polibits n.40 México Jul./Dec. 2009
Special section: Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
Cross Language Information Retrieval using Multilingual Ontology as Translation and Query Expansion Base
Mustafa Abusalah, John Tait, and Michael Oakes
School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland SR6 0DD, UK, (email: mustafa.abusalah@sunderland.ac.uk, john.tait@sunderland.ac.uk, michael.oakes@sunderland.ac.uk).
Manuscript received October 14, 2008.
Manuscript accepted for publication August 3, 2009.
Abstract
This paper reports an experiment to evaluate a Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) system that uses a multilingual ontology to improve query translation in the travel domain. The ontologybased approach significantly outperformed the Machine Readable Dictionary translation baseline using Mean Average Precision as a metric in a usercentered experiment.
Key words: Ontology, multilingual, cross language information retrieval.
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