PPT Slide
- What’s CLIR
- Information retrieval with queries and documents in different languages
- Why CLIR
- Information may be in an unfamiliar language
- Information may be in several languages
- Document translation is not always the answer
- Uncertainty of existence of relevant documents (e.g., on the web)
- Pre-retrieval document translation is expensive (money, time)
- Unselective document translation is not necessary