Translating pieces of words

  • Authors:
  • Paul McNamee;James Mayfield

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD;Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Translation for cross-language information retrieval need not be word-based. We show that character n-grams in one language can be 'translated' into character n-grams of another language. We demonstrate that such translations produce retrieval results on par with, and often exceeding, those of word-based and stem-based translation.