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Construction of a Fuzzy Multilingual Thesaurus and Its Application to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval

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Web Intelligence: Research and Development (WI 2001)

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Cross-lingual text retrieval (CLTR) is a problem of vocabulary mismatch. To allow multilingual term matching, a multilingual thesaurus is used. However, a multilingual thesaurus encoded with exact translation equivalent only is insufficient for effective CLTR since relevant documents are often indexed by cross-lingual related term. In this paper, a novel approach for automatically constructing a multilingual thesaurus based on fuzzy set theory is proposed. By introducing a degree of relatedness between multilingual terms using the concept of membership degree, partial match of cross-lingual related terms is facilitated.

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  1. School of Business Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia

    Rowena Chau & Chung-Hsing Yeh

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  1. Rowena Chau
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  1. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1 Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan

    Ning Zhong

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

    Yiju Yao

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Jiming Liu

  4. Department of Information and Computer Science, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 169, Japan

    Setsuo Ohsuga

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Chau, R., Yeh, CH. (2001). Construction of a Fuzzy Multilingual Thesaurus and Its Application to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval. In: Zhong, N., Yao, Y., Liu, J., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Web Intelligence: Research and Development. WI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45490-X_40

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