@inproceedings{hahn-etal-2005-subword,
title = "Subword Clusters as Light-Weight Interlingua for Multilingual Document Retrieval",
author = "Hahn, Udo and
Marko, Kornel and
Schulz, Stefan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit X: Papers",
month = sep # " 13-15",
year = "2005",
address = "Phuket, Thailand",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2005.mtsummit-papers.3",
pages = "17--24",
abstract = "We introduce a light-weight interlingua for a cross-language document retrieval system in the medical domain. It is composed of equivalence classes of semantically primitive, language-specific subwords which are clustered by interlingual and intralingual synonymy. Each subword cluster represents a basic conceptual entity of the language-independent interlingua. Documents, as well as queries, are mapped to this interlingua level on which retrieval operations are performed. Evaluation experiments reveal that this interlingua-based retrieval model outperforms a direct translation approach.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Subword Clusters as Light-Weight Interlingua for Multilingual Document Retrieval](https://aclanthology.org/2005.mtsummit-papers.3) (Hahn et al., MTSummit 2005)
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