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Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval

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Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems (CLEF 2003)

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In this paper we propose an approach to deal with the Chinese-English cross-language image retrieval problem. Text-based image retrieval and query translation methods were adopted in the experiments. A similarity-based backward transliteration model with candidate filter was proposed to translate proper nouns that have no entries in a bilingual dictionary. The experimental results showed that using similarity-based backward transliteration increased retrieval performances.

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Lin, WC., Yang, C., Chen, HH. (2004). Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval. In: Peters, C., Gonzalo, J., Braschler, M., Kluck, M. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. CLEF 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_58

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