That is , a document that contains terms al , a2 and a3 may be ranked higher than a document which contains terms al and b.f. However , the second document is more likely to be relevant since correct translations of the query terms are more likely to co-occur ( Ballesteros and Croft , 1998 ) .
resolving ambiguity for crosslanguage retrievalquot
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Also , a document matching different translations of one term in the original query may be ranked higher than a document that matches translations of different terms in the original query . That is , a document that contains terms al , a2 and a3 may be ranked higher than a document which contains terms al and b.f. However , the second document is more likely to be relevant since correct translations of the query terms are more likely to co-occur ( Ballesteros and Croft , 1998 ) . A second method is to structure the translated query , separating the translations for one term from translations for other terms .
That is , a document that contains terms al , a2 and a3 may be ranked higher than a document which contains terms al and b.f. However , the second document is more likely to be relevant since correct translations of the query terms are more likely to co-occur ( @@CITATION ) .