In TREC-10 the Berkeley group participated only in the English-Arabic cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track. One Arabic monolingual run and four English-Arabic cross-language runs were submitted. Our approach to the cross-language retrieval was to translate the English topics into Arabic using online EnglishArabic bilingual dictionaries and machine translation software. The five official runs a...

The present paper addresses the attitudes of Saudi students toward using English dictionaries at Albaha University. A sample 64 majors in College Science and Arts Almandaq took part this study. descriptive quantitative approach was implemented 24-item questionnaire applied study to collect data. Data analysis conducted SPSS. Findings revealed that while most participants used bilingual dictiona...

This paper describes the work done at the University of Hagen for our participation at the German Indexing and Retrieval Test (GIRT) task of the CLEF 2004 evaluation campaign. We conducted both monolingual and bilingual information retrieval experiments. For monolingual experiments with the German document collection, the focus is on applying and comparing three indexing methods targeting full ...

Habanera is a multipurpose multilingual lexical knowledge base that is developed at CRL to be used as a central repository of multilingual lexical data. The knowledge base contains a set of dictionaries and relations between entries, within a dictionary (e.g., synonymy) as well as between entries of different dictionaries (e.g., translation). The format of monolingual lexical entries is left re...

Translation ambiguity, out of vocabulary words and missing some translations in bilingual dictionaries make dictionary-based Crosslanguage Information Retrieval (CLIR) a challenging task. Moreover, in agglutinative languages which do not have reliable stemmers, missing various lexical formations in bilingual dictionaries degrades CLIR performance. This paper aims to introduce a probabilistic tr...

Most of the Chinese word segmentation systems utilizes monolingual dictionary and are used for monolingual processing. For the tasks of machine translation (MT) and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), another translation dictionary may be used to transfer the words of documents from the source languages to target languages. The inconsistencies resulting from the two types of dictionari...