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Research on Lesk-C-Based WSD and Its Application in English-Chinese Bi-directional CLIR

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Information Retrieval Technology (AIRS 2009)

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) combines the traditional Information Retrieval technique and Machine Translation technique. There are many aspects related to the problem of polysemy, which are good cut-in points for the application of WSD in CLIR. Therefore, an attempt in this paper is to apply WSD in English-Chinese Bi-Directional CLIR. The query expansion and the proposed Lesk-C WSD strategy are explored. Although limited improvement on WSD can be obtained, query expansion and disambiguation based on the related strategies of WSD are beneficial to CLIR, and can improve the whole retrieval performance. Specially, by considering the “Coordinate Terms”, the Lesk-C algorithm shows the better performance and has more extensive applicability on CLIR.

This paper is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60773124), National Science and Technology Pillar Program of China (No. 2007BAH09B03) and Shanghai Municipal R&D Foundation (No. 08dz1500109). Tao Zhang is the corresponding author.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P.R. China

    Yuejie Zhang

  2. School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, 200433, P.R. China

    Tao Zhang

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu, 790-784, Pohang, Korea

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  2. School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, St Andrew Street, AB25 1HG, Aberdeen, UK

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  3. Microsoft Reseach Asia, 5F Beijing Sigma Center, 49 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, 100190, Beijing, P.R. China

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  4. National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, 101-8430, Tokyo, Japan

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Zhang, Y., Zhang, T. (2009). Research on Lesk-C-Based WSD and Its Application in English-Chinese Bi-directional CLIR. In: Lee, G.G., et al. Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04769-5_33

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