Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Progress in information extraction
TIPSTER '96 Proceedings of a workshop on held at Vienna, Virginia: May 6-8, 1996
GeoName: a system for back-transliterating Pinyin place names
HLT-NAACL-GEOREF '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references - Volume 1
CHIME: an efficient error-tolerant Cinese pinyin input method
IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Three
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For readers of English text who know some Chinese, Pinyin codes that spell out Chinese names are often ambiguous as to their original Chinese character representations if the names are new or not well known. For English-Chinese cross language retrieval, failure to accurately translate Pinyin names in a query to Chinese characters can lead to dismal retrieval effectiveness. This paper presents an approach of extracting Pinyin names from English text, suggesting translations to these Pinyin using a database of names and their characters with usage probabilities, followed with IR techniques with a corpus as a disambiguation tool to resolve the translation candidates.