( Davis and Ogden , 1997 ; Ballesteros and Croft , 1997 ; Hull and ( 3refenstette , 1996 ) .
phrasal translation and query expansion techniques for crosslanguage information retrievalquot
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Another common approach is term translation , e.g. , via a bilingual lexicon . ( Davis and Ogden , 1997 ; Ballesteros and Croft , 1997 ; Hull and ( 3refenstette , 1996 ) . While word sense disambiguation has been a central topic in previous studies for cross-lingual IR , our study suggests that using multiple weighted translations and compensating for the incompleteness of the lexicon may be more valuable .
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