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Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), where queries and documents are in different languages, needs a translation of queries and/or documents, so as to standardize both of them into a common representation. For this purpose, the use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujii , Tetsuya Ishikawa

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone of contemporary NLP, enhancing large language models (LLMs) by allowing them to access richer factual contexts through in-context retrieval. While effective in monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Leonardo Ranaldi , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

Designing a reliable natural language (NL) interface for querying tables has been a longtime goal of researchers in both the data management and natural language processing (NLP) communities. Such an interface receives as input an NL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jonathan Berant , Daniel Deutch , Amir Globerson , Tova Milo , Tomer Wolfson

This work presents the architecture used in the ongoing OntologyNavigator project. It is a research tool to help advanced learners to find adapted IT papers to create scientific bibliographies. The purpose is the use of an IT representation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Gérald Kembellec , Imad Saleh , Catherine Sauvaget

Code-mixed texts are widespread nowadays due to the advent of social media. Since these texts combine two languages to formulate a sentence, it gives rise to various research problems related to Natural Language Processing. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Tathagata Raha , Sainik Kumar Mahata , Dipankar Das , Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Being able to efficiently retrieve the required building information is critical for construction project stakeholders to carry out their engineering and management activities. Natural language interface (NLI) systems are emerging as a time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Mengtian Yin , Llewellyn Tang , Chris Webster , Shen Xu , Xiongyi Li , Huaquan Ying

The proposed system aims at the retrieval of the summarized information from the documents collected from web based search engine as per the user query related to cricket and hockey domain. The system is designed in a manner that it takes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-04-27 S. Saraswathi , Narasimha Sravan. , Sai Vamsi Krishna. B. , Suresh Reddy. S

Cross-lingual information retrieval is a challenging task in the absence of aligned parallel corpora. In this paper, we address this problem by considering topically aligned corpora designed for evaluating an IR setup. To emphasize, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Mitodru Niyogi , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Arnab Bhattacharya

Despite bilingual speakers frequently using mixed-language queries in web searches, Information Retrieval (IR) research on them remains scarce. To address this, we introduce MiLQ, Mixed-Language Query test set, the first public benchmark of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jonghwi Kim , Deokhyung Kang , Seonjeong Hwang , Yunsu Kim , Jungseul Ok , Gary Lee

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and computational linguistic techniques are increasingly being applied across various domains, yet their use in legal and regulatory tasks remains limited. To address this gap, we develop an efficient…

This paper presents an end-to-end suite for multilingual information extraction and processing from image-based documents. The system uses Optical Character Recognition (Tesseract) to extract text in languages such as English, Hindi, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Hrishit Madhavi , Jacob Cherian , Yuvraj Khamkar , Dhananjay Bhagat

Retrieval based open-domain QA systems use retrieved documents and answer-span selection over retrieved documents to find best-answer candidates. We hypothesize that multilingual Question Answering (QA) systems are prone to information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Shramay Palta , Haozhe An , Yifan Yang , Shuaiyi Huang , Maharshi Gor

One of the important factors that affects the performance of Cross Language Information Retrieval(CLIR)is the quality of translations being employed in CLIR. In order to improve the quality of translations, it is important to exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Hosein Azarbonyad , Azadeh Shakery , Heshaam Faili

In this paper, we present our solution to the Multilingual Information Retrieval Across a Continuum of Languages (MIRACL) challenge of WSDM CUP 2023\footnote{https://project-miracl.github.io/}. Our solution focuses on enhancing the ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Qi Zhang , Zijian Yang , Yilun Huang , Ze Chen , Zijian Cai , Kangxu Wang , Jiewen Zheng , Jiarong He , Jin Gao

The project aims to provide a semi-supervised approach to identify Multiword Expressions in a multilingual context consisting of English and most of the major Indian languages. Multiword expressions are a group of words which refers to some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Lahari Poddar

Language Identification in textual documents is the process of automatically detecting the language contained in a document based on its content. The present Language Identification techniques presume that a document contains text in one of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Mohd Zeeshan Ansari , Tanvir Ahmad , Noaima Bari

MIRACL (Multilingual Information Retrieval Across a Continuum of Languages) is a multilingual dataset we have built for the WSDM 2023 Cup challenge that focuses on ad hoc retrieval across 18 different languages, which collectively encompass…

Many users turn to document retrieval systems (e.g. search engines) to seek answers to controversial questions. Answering such user queries usually require identifying responses within web documents, and aggregating the responses based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sihao Chen , Siyi Liu , Xander Uyttendaele , Yi Zhang , William Bruno , Dan Roth

Two key assumptions shape the usual view of ranked retrieval: (1) that the searcher can choose words for their query that might appear in the documents that they wish to see, and (2) that ranking retrieved documents will suffice because the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Petra Galuščáková , Douglas W. Oard , Suraj Nair

Starting from an unsolved problem of information retrieval this paper presents an ontology-based model for indexing and retrieval. The model combines the methods and experiences of cognitive-to-interpret indexing languages with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Winfried Gödert