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Dictionary of Terms for Language Resources and Language Technology Infrastructures

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language resources and technology infrastructure concept > operation > text and data mining > information retrieval > cross-language information retrieval

Preferred term

cross-language information retrieval  

Definition

  • the ability of a system to retrieve relevant documents in various languages in response to a user query that is formulated in only one language

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Entry terms

  • CLIR
  • cross-lingual information retrieval
  • cross-lingual search
  • translingual information retrieval

Note

  • Cross-language information retrieval means using queries in one language to search for documents in a different language. Multilingual information retrieval is a broader term, which includes the case where queries in different languages are used, but only for searching documents in the same language.

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URI

http://w3id.org/clarin_el_dictionary/crossLanguageInformationRetrieval

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