Triangulation without translation

Authors:
James Mayfield;Paul McNamee
Affiliations:
The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel MD;The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel MD
Venue:
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Transitive retrieval and triangulation have been proposed as ways to improve cross-language retrieval quality when translation resources have poor lexical coverage. We demonstrate that cross-language retrieval is viable for European languages with no translation resources at all; that transitive retrieval without translation does not suffer the drop-off in retrieval quality sometimes reported for transitive retrieval with translation; and that triangulation that combines multiple transitive runs with no translation can boost performance over direct translation-free retrieval.