A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
European Research Letter: cross-language system evaluation: the CLEF campaigns
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
A Comparative Study of Query and Document Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
AMTA '98 Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas on Machine Translation and the Information Soup
Applying Machine Translation to Two-Stage Cross-Language Information
AMTA '00 Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas on Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future
Cross-language multimedia information retrieval
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
Should we translate the documents or the queries in cross-language information retrieval?
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
User experiments with the Eurovision cross-language image retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The CLEF 2004 cross-language image retrieval track
CLEF'04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images
User experiments with the Eurovision cross-language image retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Combining CBIR and NLP for multilingual terminology alignment and cross-language image indexing
YIWCALA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Young Investigators Workshop on Computational Approaches to Languages of the Americas
A case for query by image and text content: searching computer help using screenshots and keywords
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Easing erroneous translations in cross-language image retrieval using word associations
CLEF'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Cross-Language Evalution Forum: accessing Multilingual Information Repositories
International Journal of Digital Library Systems
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For many cross-language retrieval tasks, the predominant approach is to translate the query into the language of the document collection (target language). This often gives results as good as, if not better, than translating the document collection into the query language (source language). In this paper, we evaluate query versus document translation for the ImageCLEF 2004 bilingual ad hoc retrieval task. Image retrieval is achieved through matching textual queries to associated image captions for the following languages: French, German, Spanish and Italian using commercially and publicly available resources. On average, we find query translation to outperform document translation (77% of English MAP compared to 65% respectively) but this varies widely across language and query. Combining document and query translation we achieve an average MAP of 85% of English.