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Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) addresses the challenge of retrieving relevant documents written in languages different from that of the original query. Research in this area has typically framed the task as monolingual retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Roksana Goworek , Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Eda B. Özyiğit

The main issue in Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) is the poor performance of retrieval in terms of average precision when compared to monolingual retrieval performance. The main reasons behind poor performance of CLIR are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Saurabh Varshney , Jyoti Bajpai

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), where queries and documents are in different languages, has of late become one of the major topics within the information retrieval community. This paper proposes a Japanese/English CLIR system,…

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

With the increasing accessibility and utilization of multilingual documents, Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) has emerged as an important research area. Conventionally, CLIR tasks have been conducted under settings where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Seongtae Hong , Youngjoon Jang , Jungseob Lee , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

Although more and more language pairs are covered by machine translation services, there are still many pairs that lack translation resources. Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is an application which needs translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Wessel Kraaij , Jian-Yun Nie , Michel Simard

This paper proposes a Japanese/English cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) system targeting technical documents. Our system first translates a given query containing technical terms into the target language, and then retrieves…

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

In this paper, we explore the usage of Word Embedding semantic resources for Information Retrieval (IR) task. This embedding, produced by a shallow neural network, have been shown to catch semantic similarities between words (Mikolov et…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jibril Frej , Jean-Pierre Chevallet , Didier Schwab

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 advances in neural machine translation, cross-lingual retrieval tasks in which queries and documents live in different natural language spaces remain challenging. Although neural translation models may provide an intuitive approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Zhizhong Chen , Carsten Eickhoff

Bilingual word embeddings have been widely used to capture the similarity of lexical semantics in different human languages. However, many applications, such as cross-lingual semantic search and question answering, can be largely benefited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Muhao Chen , Yingtao Tian , Haochen Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Steven Skiena , Carlo Zaniolo

This paper explores a novel technique for improving recall in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems using iterative query refinement grounded in the user's lexical-semantic space. The proposed methodology combines multi-level…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Karthik Ravichandran , Sarmistha Sarna Gomasta

We propose a fully unsupervised framework for ad-hoc cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) which requires no bilingual data at all. The framework leverages shared cross-lingual word embedding spaces in which terms, queries, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Robert Litschko , Goran Glavaš , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Ivan Vulić

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) helps users find documents in languages different from their queries. This is especially important in academic search, where key research is often published in non-English languages. We present…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Francisco Valentini , Diego Kozlowski , Vincent Larivière

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) enables access to multilingual knowledge but remains challenging due to disparities in resources, scripts, and weak cross-lingual semantic alignment in embedding models. Existing pipelines often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roksana Goworek , Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Eda B. Özyiğit

In this study, we investigate interaction-based neural matching models for ad-hoc cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) using cross-lingual word embeddings (CLWEs). With experiments conducted on the CLEF collection over four language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Puxuan Yu , James Allan

Existing multilingual embedding models often encounter challenges in cross-lingual scenarios due to imbalanced linguistic resources and less consideration of cross-lingual alignment during training. Although standardized contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Seungyoon Lee , Minhyuk Kim , Seongtae Hong , Youngjoon Jang , Dongsuk Oh , Heuiseok Lim

Multilingual information retrieval has emerged as powerful tools for expanding knowledge sharing across languages. On the other hand, resources on high quality knowledge base are often scarce and in limited languages, therefore an effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yingying Zhuang , Aman Gupta , Anurag Beniwal

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

With the democratization of e-commerce platforms, an increasingly diversified user base is opting to shop online. To provide a comfortable and reliable shopping experience, it's important to enable users to interact with the platform in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mandar Kulkarni , Nikesh Garera

As a crucial role in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), query translation has three main challenges: 1) the adequacy of translation; 2) the lack of in-domain parallel training data; and 3) the requisite of low latency. To this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Liang Yao , Baosong Yang , Haibo Zhang , Weihua Luo , Boxing Chen
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