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iCLEF 2001 at Maryland: Comparing Term-for-Term Gloss and MT
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2002
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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For the first interactive Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, the Maryland team focused on comparison of term-for-term gloss translation with full machine translation for the document selection task. ...
The results show that (1) searchers are able to make relevance judgments with translations from either approach, and (2) the machine translation system achieved better effectiveness than the gloss translation ...
Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Clara Cabezas for assistance in setting up the systems used in the study, Gina Levow for help with gloss translation, Bob Allen for advice on statistical ...
doi:10.1007/3-540-45691-0_33
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iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection
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2004
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Maryland performed two sets of experiments for the 2003 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum's interactive track, one focused on interactive selection of appropriate translations for query terms, the second ...
Translation selection was supported using possible synonyms discovered through back translation and two techniques for generating KeyWord In Context (KWIC) examples of usage. ...
, and Michael Nossal for developing the earlier version of the Miracle system. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_42
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Comparing User-Assisted and Automatic Query Translation
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2003
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Julio Gonzalo and Fernando López-Ostenero for their tireless efforts to coordinate iCLEF. ...
We employed a backoff translation strategy to maximize the coverage of the bilingual term list [3] . ...
The CLEF interactive track had proven to be an excellent source of insight into both system design and experiment design. We look forward to next year's experiments! ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45237-9_36
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Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
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2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Little difference was found between the two summary types for this task in an experiment using eight human subjects. ...
Two alternative types of extractive summaries were tried using a systematically varied presentation order, one drawn from a single segment of the translated document and the other drawn from three (usually ...
Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Julio Gonzalo for coordinating iCLEF and Nizar Habash for providing the Spanish-English bilingual term list. ...
doi:10.1007/11519645_36
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User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information retrieval
2008
Information Processing & Management
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This paper describes an approach that employs user-assisted query translation to help searchers better understand the system's operation. ...
Supporting interaction and interface designs are introduced, and results from three user studies are presented. ...
Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Julio Gonzalo and Fernando López-Ostenero for helping to coordinate the CLEF interactive track, for which the first author of this paper was a co-organizer ...
doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2006.12.009
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Learning to Translate Kannada and English Queries for Mixed Script Information Retrieval
2021
Computing and informatics
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I.: CLEF Experiments at Maryland:
Statistical Stemming and Backoff Translation. In: Peters, C. (Ed.): Cross-Language
Information Retrieval and Evaluation (CLEF 2000). ...
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tempt to translate mixed script queries of Kannada and English languages into
monolingual queries was done. ...
doi:10.31577/cai_2021_3_628
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Toward automatic facet analysis and need negotiation
2008
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
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One contribution is a taxonomy of clarification types informed both by empirical results and existing theories in library and information science. ...
based on conceptual facet analysis and informed by need negotiation techniques common in reference interviews. ...
A backoff query (Q4) returned relevant documents that mostly overlapped with those from Q2, and hence the intermediary stopped at this point. ...
doi:10.1145/1416950.1416956
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***INVITED TALK***: Handling and Mining Linguistic Variation in UGC Distributed Representations of Words and Documents for Discriminating Similar Languages
2015
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VarDial workshop at COLING2014. ...
Recent interest in language resources and technology for closely related languages, varieties and dialects has led to previous editions of the LT4CloseLang workshop at RANLP2013 and EMNLP2014, and of the ...
Analytic Tools for Security (MATS) and Learning and Performance Support Systems (LPSS). ...
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