Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluation by highly relevant documents
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Combining the language model and inference network approaches to retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Bayesian networks and information retrieval
Dictionary-based techniques for cross-language information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Cross-language information retrieval
Language model based arabic word segmentation
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Combining bidirectional translation and synonymy for cross-language information retrieval
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Training linear SVMs in linear time
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Cross-lingual query suggestion using query logs of different languages
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study of learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study of using an out-of-box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching
Joint Ranking for Multilingual Web Search
ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval
ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval
Moses: open source toolkit for statistical machine translation
ACL '07 Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL on Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Exploiting query logs for cross-lingual query suggestions
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
To translate or not to translate?
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Transliteration mining with phonetic conflation and iterative training
NEWS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Named Entities Workshop
CLEF 2005: multilingual retrieval by combining multiple multilingual ranked lists
CLEF'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Cross-Language Evalution Forum: accessing Multilingual Information Repositories
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Users in many regions of the world are multilingual and they issue similar queries in different languages. Given a source language query, we propose query picking which involves finding equivalent target language queries in a large query log. Query picking treats translation as a search problem, and can serve as a translation method in the context of cross-language and multilingual search. Further, given that users usually issue queries when they think they can find relevant content, the success of query picking can serve as a strong indicator to the projected success of cross-language and multilingual search. In this paper we describe a system that performs query picking and we show that picked queries yield results that are statistically indistinguishable from a monolingual baseline. Further, using query picking to predict the effectiveness of cross-language results can have statistically significant effect on the success of multilingual search with improvements over a monolingual baseline. Multilingual merging methods that do not account for the success of query picking can often hurt retrieval effectiveness.