August 22, 1996
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland
Workshop Description
As more and more information sources are becoming available on the
Web, the portion of internationally available non-English text is
slowing growing, and surely the numbers of non-English speaking users
is growing much faster. The problem of accessing unrestricted
information with queries expressed in a language different from the
source language of the documents will become more widespread. This
workshop aims to bring together researchers working on this problem of
cross-linguistic multilingual information retrieval.
We invite papers describing implementations of cross-linguistic
retrieval; use of bilingual dictionaries, of parallel corpora, or of
non-parallel comparable bilingual corpora applied to the retrieval
problem; or providing answers to any of the following questions: Does
automatic translation solve the problem? Are word-to-word
correspondances sufficient? How should ambiguity in translation be
dealt with? What kind of user interaction can help resolve
ambiguities? How can test collections be built for multilingual
information retrieval? How can retrieved documents in different
languages be scored and ranked in a comparable fashion? What unique
features are required by multilingual user interfaces? What can be
learned from four decades of machine translation for the
cross-linguistic retrieval problem?
Workshop format
A limited number of papers will be accepted for presentation.
Accepted papers will be alloted a 20-30 minute presentation followed by
20-30 minutes of questions and discussion.
Submission requirements
Extended abstracts (max 5 pages) in plain ascii should be e-mailed to
grefen@xerox.fr
Final version: For the final version to be distributed to workshop
participants, a camera-ready uuencoded postscript file will be
necessary.
Dates:
Submission Deadline: June 7, 1996
Notification Date: July 1, 1996
Full paper due: July 22, 1996
Workshop date: Aug 22, 1996
Organizing Committee
Chair: Gregory Grefenstette
Rank Xerox Research Centre
Members:
Páraic Sheridan
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Alan Smeaton
Dublin City University
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