Literature Review of Interactive Cross Language Information Retrieval Tools
Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nurnberger
Data and Knowledge Engineering Group, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Data and Knowledge Engineering Group, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Abstract: The unprecedented rise of multilingual resources afforded by the exponential web growth demands the development of communication technologies in order to eliminate the barriers between languages. More comprehensive tools to overcome such barriers, such as machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval applications, are nowadays in strong demands. In this paper, we present an overview of the literature of interactive Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) tools and discuss their limitations. In addition, possible future research directions of interactive CLIR tools are discussed.
Keywords: Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), CLIR interaction tools, and query disambiguation.
Received July 06, 2010; accepted October 24, 2010