Clia 2008 Cross Lingual Information Access (clia) Committees Organizing Committee the Effects of Language Relatedness on Multilingual Information Retrieval: a Case Study with Indo european and Semitic Languages Identifying Similar and Co referring Documents across Languages Domain specific Query Tra
The copyright covers the non exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article, including the publication in printed and electronic forms (offline or online) and any other reproductions of similar nature, on a not for profit basis for academic purposes. i Preface Welcome to the second international workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access (CLIA 2008) with a focus on "Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies" In this workshop, like in the previous year, our aim was to bring together various trends in cross and multilingual information retrieval and access. This year we have accepted eight papers after a careful review process and these accepted papers are included in the proceedings. The workshop will have four sessions, each focusing on a specific theme: Cross Language Information Retrieval, Translations and Transliterations in CLIR, Information Extraction/Summarization in CLIR contexts, and, finally a session on the overview of the experiences of Indian research groups in the CLEF 2007 competition. There are three papers in the first session on Cross Language Information Retrieval: The first paper explores the effects of language relatedness on multilingual Information retrieval. This paper presents a case study with Indo European and Semitic Languages and addresses some of the challenges posed by Semitic languages IR. The paper on Identifying Similar and Co referring Documents Across Languages, authors make use of Vector Space Model (VSM) and Named Entities in identifying the co reference and similarity. In the paper on finding parallel texts on the web using cross language information retrieval, CLIR techniques are used in combination with structural features to retrieve candidate document pairs from the web. These three papers are part of the session on Cross Language Information Retrieval. In the second session on Translations and Transliterations in CLIR, we will again have three papers will be presented: The first paper presents results of some experiments in Mining Named Entity Transliteration Pairs from Comparable Corpora, employing English Tamil named entity parallel comparable corpus texts. The second paper on Domain Specific Query Translation for Multilingual Information Access using Machine Translation Augmented with Dictionaries Mined from Wikipedia authors demonstrates that effective query translation for CLIA can be achieved in the domain of cultural heritage using a standard MT system, and that domain specific phrase dictionaries that are may be automatically mined from the online Wikipedia. The paper Statistical Transliteration for Cross Language Information Retrieval using HMM alignment model and CRF, presents a technique that combines HMM and CRF for transliteration task in