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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

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

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

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

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

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 present a novel method for retrieving information in languages other than that of the query. We use this technique in combination with existing traditional Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) techniques to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-06-17 Mikhail Basilyan

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

Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language (MATERIAL) is an IARPA initiative targeted to advance the state of cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR). This report provides a detailed description of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shantanu Agarwal , Joel Barry , Elizabeth Boschee , Scott Miller

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

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) ~\cite{shi2021cross, asai2021one, jiang2020cross} for example, can find relevant text in any language such as English(high resource) or Telugu (low resource) even when the query is posed in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Navya Yarrabelly , Saloni Mittal , Ketan Todi , Kimihiro Hasegawa

Providing access to information across languages has been a goal of Information Retrieval (IR) for decades. While progress has been made on Cross Language IR (CLIR) where queries are expressed in one language and documents in another, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Dawn Lawrie , Eugene Yang , Douglas W. Oard , James Mayfield

Search engines are the most commonly used type of tool for finding relevant information on the Internet. However, today's search engines are far from perfect. Typical search queries are short, often one or two words, and can be ambiguous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Dilip K. Limbu , Andy M. Connor , Stephen G. MacDonell

Multi-stage information retrieval (IR) has become a widely-adopted paradigm in search. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been extensively evaluated as second-stage reranking models for monolingual IR, a systematic large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Longfei Zuo , Pingjun Hong , Oliver Kraus , Barbara Plank , Robert Litschko

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

The advent of multilingual language models has generated a resurgence of interest in cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR), which is the task of searching documents in one language with queries from another. However, the rapid pace of…

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

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

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) aims to rank the documents written in a language different from the user's query. The intrinsic gap between different languages is an essential challenge for CLIR. In this paper, we introduce the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Fuwei Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Xiang Ao , Dehong Gao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yi Wei , Qing He

This paper is a survey discussing Information Retrieval concepts, methods, and applications. It goes deep into the document and query modelling involved in IR systems, in addition to pre-processing operations such as removing stop words and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Youssef Bassil
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