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We demonstrate a twofold use of Wikipedia for cross-lingual information retrieval. As our main contribution, we exploit Wikipedia hyperlinkage for query term disambiguation. We also use bilingual Wikipedia articles for dictionary extension. Our method is based on translation disambiguation; we combine the Wikipedia based technique with a method based on bigram statistics of pairs formed by translations of different source language terms.
This work was supported by a Yahoo! Faculty Research Grant and by grants MOLINGV NKFP-2/0024/2005, NKFP-2004 project Language Miner http://nyelvbanyasz. sztaki.hu
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Schönhofen, P., Benczúr, A., Bíró, I., Csalogány, K. (2008). Cross-Language Retrieval with Wikipedia . In: Peters, C., et al. Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_9
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