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Applying EuroWordNet to Cross-Language Text Retrieval

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We discuss ways in which EuroWordNet (EWN) can be used in multilingual information retrieval activities, focusing on two approaches to Cross-Language Text Retrieval that use the EWN database as a large-scale multilingual semantic resource. The first approach indexes documents and queries in terms of the EuroWordNet Inter-Lingual-Index, thus turning term weighting and query/document matching into language-independent tasks. The second describes how the information in the EWN database could be integrated with a corpus-based technique, thus allowing retrieval of domain-specific terms that may not be present in our multilingual database. Our objective is to show the potential of EuroWordNet as a promising alternative to existing approaches to Cross-Language Text Retrieval.

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  1. UNED, Ciudad Universitaria, s.n., 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Julio Gonzalo & Felisa Verdejo

  2. Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via S. Maria, 46, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  3. Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via della Faggiola, 32, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Nicoletta Calzolari

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Gonzalo, J., Verdejo, F., Peters, C. et al. Applying EuroWordNet to Cross-Language Text Retrieval. Computers and the Humanities 32, 185–207 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001129911019

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