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Cross-language information retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 1997)

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Abstract

We describe here the application of a cross-language information retrieval technique based on similarity thesauri in the domain of Swiss law. We present the theory of similarity thesauri, which are information structures derived from corpora, and show how they can be used for cross-language retrieval. We also discuss the collections of Swiss legal documents and show how we have used them to construct an environment in which we can directly evaluate the performance of our cross-language retrieval system. Evaluation shows that cross-language retrieval works equally as well as monolingual retrieval in the best case. We conclude that providing cross-language access to digital libraries is already a viable possibility.

(Martin Braschler has since left ETH Zurich)

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  1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Páraic Sheridan, Martin Braschlert & Peter Schäuble

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  1. Páraic Sheridan
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Sheridan, P., Braschlert, M., Schäuble, P. (1997). Cross-language information retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain. In: Peters, C., Thanos, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1324. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0026732

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