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 n