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Simple Translations of Monolingual Queries Expanded Through an Association Thesaurus

X-IOTA IR System Used for CLIPS Bilingual Experiments

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Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems (CLEF 2003)

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In this paper we present the use of an association thesaurus for monolingual query expansion and a basic translation of this query for the bilingual CLEF task. An association thesaurus is based on the corpus itself, and we expect to enhance the results of both monolingual and bilingual querying.

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Sérasset, G., Chevallet, JP. (2004). Simple Translations of Monolingual Queries Expanded Through an Association Thesaurus. In: Peters, C., Gonzalo, J., Braschler, M., Kluck, M. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. CLEF 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_23

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