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Multilingual Thesauri in Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval (1997)
| Venue: | In Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval |
| Citations: | 21 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Soergel97multilingualthesauri,
author = {Dagobert Soergel},
title = {Multilingual Thesauri in Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval},
booktitle = {In Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval},
year = {1997},
pages = {164--170}
}
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Abstract
This paper sets forth a framework for the use of thesauri as knowledge bases in cross-language retrieval. It provides a general introduction to thesaurus functions, structure, and construction with particular attention to the problems of multilingual thesauri. 1 Thesaurus functions A thesaurus is a structure that manages the complexities of terminology in language and provides conceptual relationships. A thesaurus for assisting writers suggests from a semantic field the term that best conveys the intended meaning and connotation. In information retrieval a thesaurus or classification can be used in two ways: (1) controlled vocabulary indexing and searching (applicable to any kind of retrieval); (2) knowledge-based support of free-text searching (applicable only to written or spoken text although the text could point to another object, e.g. retrieving images through a free-text search of written or spoken image captions or through a search of the text portion of a movie). To look at th...
Keyphrases
multilingual thesaurus speech retrieval cross-language text image caption vocabulary indexing thesaurus function thesaurus general introduction cross-language retrieval knowledge-based support semantic field information retrieval free-text searching particular attention text portion free-text search intended meaning knowledge base retrieving image conceptual relationship
