Cross Lingual Query Dependent Snippet Generation

The present paper describes the development of a cross lingual query dependent snippet generation module. It is a language independent module, so it also performs as a multilingual snippet generation module. It is a module of the Cross Lingual Information Access (CLIA) system. This module takes the query and content of each retrieved document and generates a query dependent snippet for each retrieved document. It highlights all the query words, which appear in the generated snippet. The algorithm of this module based on the sentence extraction, sentence scoring and sentence ranking. Subjective evaluation has been done to evaluate the output of this module. English snippet got the best evaluation score, i.e. 1 and overall average evaluation score of 0.83 has been achieved in the scale of 0 to 1. Keywords— Snippet Generation, Summarization, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Cross Lingual, Multilingual.