Querying across languages: a dictionary-based approach to multilingual information retrieval

We present a method which, given a few words defining a concept in some language, retrieves, disambiguates and extends corresponding terms that define a similar concept in another specified language. This can be very useful for cross-lingual information ...

We explore the use of morph-based language models in large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition systems across four so-called morphologically rich languages: Finnish, Estonian, Turkish, and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. The morphs are subword units ...

We present two methods for automatic indexing, which are based on an interlingual layer of content description. In the first approach, we acquire indexing patterns from English documents by statistically relating interlingual representations of English ...