9.479, Books: Computational Linguistics

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Date:  Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:44:02 -0500
From:  rmurphy at wkap.com (Roberta Murphy)
Subject:  Cross-Language Informational Retrieval

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Date:  Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:44:02 -0500
From:  rmurphy at wkap.com (Roberta Murphy)
Subject:  Cross-Language Informational Retrieval

     KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS is proud to announce the publication of:

     CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
     edited by
     Gregory Grefenstette
     Rank Xerox European Research Centre, France

     Cross-Language Information Retrieval is the first book that addresses
     the problem of accessing multilingual information through a
     single-language query. This research problem is receiving growing
     attention by US and foreign governments. The universal adoption of the
     Internet and the WWW have created an enormous, multilingual virtual
     textual database. Rather than looking upon foreign language documents
     as distracting noise, one can consider these documents as untapped
     sources of information.

     Cross-Language Information Retrieval describes the problem,
     highlighting the differences between the field and the related areas
     of Machine Translation and Information Retrieval.  Researchers from
     Europe, Japan and America present a wide variety of techniques and
     experimental results. The life-size experiments are run on modern
     large-scale retrieval testbeds, running up to hundreds of megabytes of
     texts. The techniques involve using bilingual dictionaries, machine
     translation systems, parallel text corpora, comparable but
     non-parallel text corpora, latent semantic indexing, and weighted
     Boolean interrogation.

     This volume is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level
     course on Cross-Language Information Retrieval, and as a reference for
     researchers and practitioners in industry.

     Contents and  Contributors
     Preface.  1. The Problem of Cross-Language Information Retrieval; G.
     Grefenstette   2. On the Effective Use of Large Parallel Corpora in
     Cross-Language Text Retrieval; M.W. Davis  3. Statistical Methods for
     Cross-Language Information Retrieval; L. Ballesteros, W.B. Croft  4.
     Distributed Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval; C. Fluhr, et al  5.
     Automatic Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Latent Semantic
     Indexing; M.L. Littman, et al.  6. Mapping Vocabularies Using Latent
     Semantics; D.A. Evans, et al.  7. Cross-Language Information
     Retrieval: A System for Comparable Corpus Querying; E. Picchi, C.
     Peters.  8. A Language Conversion Front-End for Cross-Language
     Information Retrieval; Y. Kiyoshi, et al.  9. The SYSTRAN NLP Browser:
     An Application of Machine Translation Technology in Cross-Language
     Information Retrieval; D.A. Gachot, et al. 10. A Weighted Boolean
     Model for Cross-Language Text Retrieval; D. Hull. 11. Building a Large
     Multilingual Test Collection from Comparable News Documents; P.
     Sheridan, et al. 12. Evaluating Cross-Language Text Filtering
     Effectiveness; D.W. Oard, B.J. Dorr. References. Index.


     THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, Volume 2
     Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
     Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-8122-X, March 1998, 200 pp.,  $115.00

     FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR On-line
     Catalogue at: http://www.wkap.nl

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     Phone: 781-871-6600, Fax: (781) 871-6528,  E-mail: kluwer at wkap.com

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