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We describe a method for fully automated cross-language document retrieval in which no query translation is required. Queries in one language can retrieve documents in other languages (as well as the original language). This is accomplished by a method that automatically constructs a multi-lingual semantic space using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). We present strong preliminary test results for our cross-language LSI (CL-LSI) method for a French-English collection. We also provide some evidence that this automatic method performs comparably to a retrieval method based on machine translation (MT-LSI).
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Littman, M.L., Dumais, S.T., Landauer, T.K. (1998). Automatic Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Latent Semantic Indexing. In: Grefenstette, G. (eds) Cross-Language Information Retrieval. The Springer International Series on Information Retrieval, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5661-9_5
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