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Hybrid and interactive domain-specific translation for multilingual access to digital libraries

Jones, Gareth J.F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365, Fuller, Marguerite, Newman, Eamonn and Zhang, Ying (2011) Hybrid and interactive domain-specific translation for multilingual access to digital libraries. In: Bernardi, Rafaella, (ed.) Advanced Language Technologies for Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6699 . Springer-Verlag, pp. 72-91.

Abstract
Accurate high-coverage translation is a vital component of reliable cross language information retrieval (CLIR) systems. This is particularly true for retrieval from archives such as Digital Libraries which are often specific to certain domains. While general machine translation (MT) has been shown to be effective for CLIR tasks in laboratory information retrieval evaluation tasks, it is generally not well suited to specialized situations where domain-specific translations are required. We demonstrate that effective query translation in the domain of cultural heritage (CH) can be achieved using a hybrid translation method which augments a standard MT system with domain-specific phrase dictionaries automatically mined from Wikipedia. We further describe the use of these components in a domain-specific interactive query translation service. The interactive system selects the hybrid translation by default, with other possible translations being offered to the user interactively to enable them to select alternative or additional translation(s). The objective of this interactive service is to provide user control of translation while maximising translation accuracy and minimizing the translation effort of the user. Experiments using our hybrid translation system with sample query logs from users of CH websites demonstrate a large improvement in the accuracy of domain-specific phrase detection and translation.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Publisher:Springer-Verlag
Copyright Information:© 2011 Springer-Verlag. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:16436
Deposited On:07 Oct 2011 10:31 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 25 Oct 2018 10:16
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