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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
May. 24, 2012
Vassilina Nikoulina, Grenoble, FR;
Nikolaos Lagos, Grenoble, FR;
Stephane Clinchant, Grenoble, FR;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A translation system and method suited to use in Cross Language Information Retrieval employ a retrieval-based scoring function for reranking candidate translations. The method includes translating an input source language query to generate a set of the candidate translations in a target language. The candidate translations are scored with the scoring function, which allows them to be reranked, and an optimal one or more selected for use in querying a domain-specific collection of documents in the target language. The scoring function applies weights to features extracted from the candidate translations. The weights have been learned on features extracted from translated queries, each generated by translation of an original query into the target language, and a measure of information retrieval performance of each the translated queries. One or more of the features used is a domain-specific feature which relies on a corpus of documents in the domain of interest.