Translation Technologies Collection
Information Retrieval
Multilingual Information Retrieval
Named individual
Operation
Information Extraction and Information Retrieval Collection
Cross-language Information Retrieval
Cross-lingual information retrieval
Translingual information retrieval
CLIR
Cross-lingual search
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.
Operation Taxonomy
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