cross language informational retrieval kluwer academic publishers proud announce publication crosslanguage information retrieval edited gregory grefenstette rank xerox european research centre france cross language information retrieval first book addresses problem accessing multilingual information singlelanguage query research problem receiving growing attention us foreign governments universal adoption internet www created enormous multilingual virtual textual database rather looking upon foreign language documents distracting noise one consider documents untapped sources information cross language information retrieval describes problem highlighting differences field related areas machine translation information retrieval researchers europe japan america present wide variety techniques experimental results lifesize experiments run modern largescale retrieval testbeds running hundreds megabytes texts techniques involve using bilingual dictionaries machine translation systems parallel text corpora comparable nonparallel text corpora latent semantic indexing weighted boolean interrogation volume suitable secondary text graduate level course cross language information retrieval reference researchers practitioners industry contents contributors preface 1 problem cross language information retrieval g grefenstette 2 effective use large parallel corpora cross language text retrieval w davis 3 statistical methods 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 l littman et al 6 mapping vocabularies using latent semantics evans et al 7 cross language information retrieval system comparable corpus querying e picchi c peters 8 language conversion front end cross language information retrieval kiyoshi et al 9 systran nlp browser application machine translation technology cross language information retrieval gachot et al 10 weighted boolean model cross language text retrieval hull 11 building large multilingual test collection comparable news documents p sheridan et al 12 evaluating cross language text filtering effectiveness w oard b j dorr references index kluwer international series information retrieval volume 2 kluwer academic publishers boston hardbound isbn 07923 8122 x march 1998 200 pp 115 00 information publication please visit line catalogue http www wkap nl may order directly kluwer academic publishers 101 philip drive norwell 02061 phone 781871 6600 fax 781 8716528 e mail kluwer wkap com kluwer academic publishers p box 322 3300 ah dordrecht netherlands phone 31 78 639 2392 fax 31 78 6546474 e mail services wkap nl