Corpora: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT FROM KLUWER !

Roberta Murphy (rmurphy@wkap.com)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:54:12 -0500

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS is proud to announce the publication of:

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
edited by
Gregory Grefenstette
Rank Xerox European Research Centre, France

Cross-Language Information Retrieval is the first book that addresses
the problem of accessing multilingual information through a
single-language query. This research problem is receiving growing
attention by US and foreign governments. The universal adoption of the
Internet and the WWW have created an enormous, multilingual virtual
textual database. Rather than looking upon foreign language documents
as distracting noise, one can consider these documents as untapped
sources of information.

Cross-Language Information Retrieval describes the problem,
highlighting the differences between the field and the related areas
of Machine Translation and Information Retrieval. Researchers from
Europe, Japan and America present a wide variety of techniques and
experimental results. The life-size experiments are run on modern
large-scale retrieval testbeds, running up to hundreds of megabytes of
texts. The techniques involve using bilingual dictionaries, machine
translation systems, parallel text corpora, comparable but
non-parallel text corpora, latent semantic indexing, and weighted
Boolean interrogation.

This volume is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level
course on Cross-Language Information Retrieval, and as a reference for
researchers and practitioners in industry.

Contents and Contributors
Preface. 1. The Problem of Cross-Language Information Retrieval; G.
Grefenstette 2. On the Effective Use of Large Parallel Corpora in
Cross-Language Text Retrieval; M.W. Davis 3. Statistical Methods for
Cross-Language Information Retrieval; L. Ballesteros, W.B. Croft 4.
Distributed Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval; C. Fluhr, et al 5.
Automatic Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Latent Semantic
Indexing; M.L. Littman, et al. 6. Mapping Vocabularies Using Latent
Semantics; D.A. Evans, et al. 7. Cross-Language Information
Retrieval: A System for Comparable Corpus Querying; E. Picchi, C.
Peters. 8. A Language Conversion Front-End for Cross-Language
Information Retrieval; Y. Kiyoshi, et al. 9. The SYSTRAN NLP Browser:
An Application of Machine Translation Technology in Cross-Language
Information Retrieval; D.A. Gachot, et al. 10. A Weighted Boolean
Model for Cross-Language Text Retrieval; D. Hull. 11. Building a Large
Multilingual Test Collection from Comparable News Documents; P.
Sheridan, et al. 12. Evaluating Cross-Language Text Filtering
Effectiveness; D.W. Oard, B.J. Dorr. References. Index.


THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, Volume 2
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-8122-X, March 1998, 200 pp., $115.00

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