Translation Technologies Collection
type: Named individual
member: Cross-language Information Retrieval
type: Operation
type: Collection

Information Retrieval
type: Named individual
type: Operation
type: Concept
narrower: Cross-language Information Retrieval

Multilingual Information Retrieval
type: Named individual
type: Operation
type: Concept
related: Cross-language Information Retrieval

Named individual
type: Class

Operation
type: Class

Information Extraction and Information Retrieval Collection
type: Named individual
type: Operation
type: Collection
member: Cross-language Information Retrieval

Cross-language Information Retrieval
type: Named individual
alternative label: Cross-lingual information retrieval
alternative label: Translingual information retrieval
alternative label: CLIR
alternative label: Cross-lingual search
related: Multilingual Information Retrieval
broader: Information Retrieval
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.
type: Operation
type: Concept
in scheme: Operation Taxonomy
comment: 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

Operation Taxonomy
type: Named individual
type: ConceptScheme