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Disambiguation Strategies for English-Hindi Cross Language Information Retrieval System

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The information content of languages other than English are increasing rapidly on WWW. To access information of a language other than the native language we need Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). The approaches to CLIR can be classified into three different categories • document translation, query translation and interlingua matching. The dictionary based query translation approach has been widely used by researchers of CLIR. The translation ambiguity and target polysemy are the two major problems of dictionary based CLIR. In this paper, we have investigated part of speech and co-occurrence based disambiguation techniques for English-Hindi CLIR system.

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  1. Deptt. of MCA, MANIT, Bhopal, India

    Sujoy Das

  2. Computer Sc. & Applications, MCRPSV, Bhopal, India

    Anurag Seetha

  3. Deptt. of Computer Sc. & IT, SIRT, Bhopal, India

    M. Kumar

  4. RITS, Bhopal, India

    J. L. Rana (Director)

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    U. S. Tiwary (Professor), Tanveer J. Siddiqui (Assistant Professor), M. Radhakrishna (Professor) & M. D. Tiwari (Director) (Professor),  (Assistant Professor),  (Professor) &  (Director)

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Das, S., Seetha, A., Kumar, M., Rana, J.L. (2009). Disambiguation Strategies for English-Hindi Cross Language Information Retrieval System. In: Tiwary, U.S., Siddiqui, T.J., Radhakrishna, M., Tiwari, M.D. (eds) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-8489-203-1_30

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