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> Text and Data Mining > Information Retrieval > Cross-language Information Retrieval

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Cross-language Information Retrieval  

Type

  • Named individual

  • Operation

Definition

  • 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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Entry terms

  • CLIR
  • Cross-lingual information retrieval
  • Cross-lingual search
  • Translingual information retrieval

Description

  • 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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http://w3id.org/meta-share/omtd-share/CrossLingualSearch

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