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Multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) considers the problem of ranking documents in several languages for a query expressed in a language that may differ from any of those languages. Recent work has observed that approaches such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Eugene Yang , Thomas Jänich , James Mayfield , Dawn Lawrie

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

With the increasing utilization of multilingual text information, Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) has become a crucial research area. However, the impact of training data composition on both CLIR and Mono-Lingual Information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Youngjoon Jang , Junyoung Son , Taemin Lee , Seongtae Hong , Hyeonseok Moon , Seungyoon Lee , Andrew Matteson , Heuiseok Lim

In this work we present a systematic empirical study focused on the suitability of the state-of-the-art multilingual encoders for cross-lingual document and sentence retrieval tasks across a number of diverse language pairs. We first treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Robert Litschko , Ivan Vulić , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Goran Glavaš

Retrieval of previously fact-checked claims is a well-established task, whose automation can assist professional fact-checkers in the initial steps of information verification. Previous works have mostly tackled the task monolingually,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alan Ramponi , Marco Rovera , Robert Moro , Sara Tonelli

Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval (RIR) targets retrieval settings where relevance is mediated by latent inferential links between a query and supporting evidence, rather than semantic similarity. Motivated by the emergent reasoning abilities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yiyang Wei , Tingyu Song , Siyue Zhang , Yilun Zhao

The rapid growth of web has resulted in vast volume of information. Information availability at a rapid speed to the user is vital. English language (or any for that matter) has lot of ambiguity in the usage of words. So there is no…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Jeevan H E , Prashanth P P , Punith Kumar S N , Vinay Hegde

A large amount of data is present on the web. It contains huge number of web pages and to find suitable information from them is very cumbersome task. There is need to organize data in formal manner so that user can easily access and use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Gagandeep Singh , Vishal Jain

We propose a framework for discriminative Information Retrieval (IR) atop linguistic features, trained to improve the recall of tasks such as answer candidate passage retrieval, the initial step in text-based Question Answering (QA). We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Tongfei Chen , Benjamin Van Durme

Multilingual question answering tasks typically assume answers exist in the same language as the question. Yet in practice, many languages face both information scarcity -- where languages have few reference articles -- and information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Akari Asai , Jungo Kasai , Jonathan H. Clark , Kenton Lee , Eunsol Choi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Information Retrieval (IR) aims at retrieving documents that are most relevant to a query provided by a user. Traditional techniques rely mostly on syntactic methods. In some cases, however, links at a deeper semantic level must be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Marcello Balduccini , Emily LeBlanc

Multilingual Information Retrieval is increasingly important in real-world search settings, where users issue queries over mixed-language corpora. Existing evaluations mainly reward language-agnostic semantic relevance, treating relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Youngjoon Jang , Seongtae Hong , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

Exclusion is an important and universal linguistic skill that humans use to express what they do not want. However, in information retrieval community, there is little research on exclusionary retrieval, where users express what they do not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Wenhao Zhang , Mengqi Zhang , Shiguang Wu , Jiahuan Pei , Zhaochun Ren , Maarten de Rijke , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

Measuring advances in retrieval requires test collections with relevance judgments that can faithfully distinguish systems. This paper presents NeuCLIRTech, an evaluation collection for cross-language retrieval over technical information.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Dawn Lawrie , James Mayfield , Eugene Yang , Andrew Yates , Sean MacAvaney , Ronak Pradeep , Scott Miller , Paul McNamee , Luca Soldaini

Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has become an important problem to solve in the recent years due to the growth of content in multiple languages in the Web. One of the standard methods is to use query translation from source to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Paheli Bhattacharya , Pawan Goyal , Sudeshna Sarkar

Query translation (QT) is a key component in cross-lingual information retrieval system (CLIR). With the help of deep learning, neural machine translation (NMT) has shown promising results on various tasks. However, NMT is generally trained…

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

A key stumbling block for neural cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems has been the paucity of training data. The appearance of the MS MARCO monolingual training set led to significant advances in the state of the art in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 James Mayfield , Eugene Yang , Dawn Lawrie , Samuel Barham , Orion Weller , Marc Mason , Suraj Nair , Scott Miller

Neural networks with deep architectures have demonstrated significant performance improvements in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. The challenges in information retrieval (IR), however, are different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Bhaskar Mitra

The main aim of an information retrieval system is to extract appropriate information from an enormous collection of data based on users need. The basic concept of the information retrieval system is that when a user sends out a query, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Abdulmalik Johar

Large amount of unstructured designed information is difficult to deal with. Obtaining specific information is a hard mission and takes a lot of time. Information Retrieval System (IR) is a way to solve this kind of problem. IR is a good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Maher Abdullah , Mohammed GH. I. Al Zamil