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Multilingual people search

Published: 19 July 2010 Publication History

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People Search is an important search service with multiple applications (eg. looking up a friend on Facebook, finding colleagues in corporate email directories etc). With the proportion of non-English users on a steady rise, people search services are being used by users from diverse language demographics. Users may issue name search queries against these directories in languages other than the language of the directory, in which case the present monolingual name search approaches will not work. In this demo, we present a Multilingual People Search system capable of performing fast name lookups on large user directories, independent of the directory language. Our system has applications in areas like social networking, enterprise search and email address book search.

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R. Udupa and M. Khapra. Improving the multilingual user experience of wikipedia using cross-language name search. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010.
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R. Udupa and M. Khapra. Transliteration equivalence using canonical correlation analysis. In Proceedings of ECIR 2010.

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    SIGIR '10: Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
    July 2010
    944 pages
    ISBN:9781450301534
    DOI:10.1145/1835449
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