Improving the extraction of bilingual terminology from Wikipedia

M Erdmann, K Nakayama, T Hara… - ACM Transactions on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Research on the automatic construction of bilingual dictionaries has achieved impressive
results. Bilingual dictionaries are usually constructed from parallel corpora, but since these …

[PDF][PDF] Cross-lingual alignment and completion of Wikipedia templates

G Bouma, S Duarte, Z Islam - Proceedings of the third international …, 2009 - aclanthology.org
For many languages, the size of Wikipedia is an order of magnitude smaller than the English
Wikipedia. We present a method for cross-lingual alignment of template and infobox …

Domain-specific query translation for multilingual information access using machine translation augmented with dictionaries mined from Wikipedia

GJF Jones, F Fantino, E Newman, Y Zhang - 2008 - doras.dcu.ie
Accurate high-coverage translation is a vital component of reliable cross language
information access (CLIA) systems. While machine translation (MT) has been shown to be …

Question answering with joost at clef 2007

G Bouma, G Kloosterman, J Mur, G Van Noord… - Advances in Multilingual …, 2008 - Springer
We describe our system for the monolingual Dutch and multilingual English to Dutch QA
tasks. We describe the preprocessing of Wikipedia, inclusion of query expansion in IR …

Extraction of bilingual terminology from a multilingual web-based encyclopedia

M Erdmann, K Nakayama, T Hara… - Journal of Information …, 2008 - jstage.jst.go.jp
With the demand for bilingual dictionaries covering domain-specific terminology, research in
the field of automatic dictionary extraction has become popular. However, the accuracy and …

[PDF][PDF] Multilingual search for cultural heritage archives via combining multiple translation resources

GJF Jones, Y Zhang, E Newman… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - aclanthology.org
The linguistic features of material in Cultural Heritage (CH) archives may be in various
languages requiring a facility for effective multilingual search. The specialised language …

Calculating wikipedia article similarity using machine translation evaluation metrics

M Erdmann, A Finch, K Nakayama… - … IEEE Workshops of …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Calculating the similarity of Wikipedia articles in different languages is helpful for bilingual
dictionary construction and various other research areas. However, standard methods for …

A prototype framework for a Bangla question answering system using translation based on transliteration and table look-up as an interface for the medical domain

N Haque - 2010 - um.edu.mt
Question Answering (QA) Systems allow the user to ask questions in a natural language and
obtain an exact answer. Through this thesis work, we tried to learn the important issues in …

[PDF][PDF] AnswerFinder at QA@ CLEF 2007.

M Van Zaanen, D Mollá - CLEF (Working Notes), 2007 - academia.edu
In this article, we describe our experiences with modifying and applying AnswerFinder, a
generic question answering system that was originally designed to perform textbased …

The bilingual system MUSCLEF at QA@ CLEF 2006

B Grau, AL Ligozat, I Robba, A Vilnat, M Bagur… - … of Multilingual and Multi …, 2007 - Springer
This paper presents our bilingual question answering system MUSCLEF. We underline the
difficulties encountered when shifting from a mono to a cross-lingual system, then we focus …