Web contains a vast amount of data, which are accumulated, studied, and utilized by a huge
number of users on a daily basis. A substantial amount of data on the Web is available in an …

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is an active sub-domain of information retrieval
(IR). Like IR, CLIR is centered on the search for documents and for information contained …

Recent years have witnessed considerable advances in information retrieval for European
languages other than English. We give an overview of commonly used techniques and we …

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) deals with retrieving relevant documents in one
language using queries expressed in another language. As CLIR tools rely on translation …

Abstract The Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is now in its fourth year of activity.
We summarize the main lessons learned during this period, outline the state-of-the-art of the …

In this paper we explore some of the most important areas of advanced information retrieval.
In particular, we look at cross-lingual information retrieval, multimedia information retrieval …

We present a method for creating a comparable text corpus from two document collections in
different languages. The collections can be very different in origin. In this study, we build a …

The majority of Arabic text available on the web is written without short vowels (diacritics).
Diacritics are commonly used in religious scripts such as the holy Quran (the book of Islam) …

The aim of the study was to test whether query expansion by approximate string matching
methods is beneficial in retrieval from historical newspaper collections in a language rich …

Approaches of query translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) have
frequently used dictionaries which suffer from translation ambiguity. Besides, a word-by …