| Title |
EuroWordNet as a Resource for Cross-language Information Retrieval |
| Author(s) |
Mark Stevenson (1), Paul Clough (2) (1) Department of Computer Science and (2) Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, UK, S1 4DP |
| Session |
O19-TW |
| Abstract |
One of the aims of EuroWordNet (EWN) was to provide a resource for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). In this paper we present experiments to test the usefulness of EWN for this purpose via a formal evaluation using the Spanish queries from the TREC6 CLIR test set. All CLIR systems using bilingual dictionaries must find a way of dealing with multiple translations and we employ a word sense disambiguation algorithm for this purpose. Retrieval performance using when the disambiguation algorithm was used was 90% of that recorded using queries which had been disambiguated manually. |
| Keyword(s) |
cross-lingual information retrieval, CLIR, EuroWordNet, word sense disambiguation, WSD |
| Language(s) | English, Spanish |
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