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The aim of this project is the automatic conversion of query terms in one language into their equivalents in a second, historically related, language, so that documents in the second language can be retrieved. The method is to compile lists of regular sound changes which occur between related words of a language pair, and substitute these in the source language words to generate target language words. For example, if we know b in Italian often corresponds with a v in Spanish, an unaccented o in Italian with ó in Spanish, and a terminal e in Italian is replaced with a null in Spanish, we can construct the Spanish word autómovil (car) from the Italian automobile.
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Oakes, M.P., Banerjee, S. (2004). Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information Retrieval. 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_25
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