Adaptation of machine translation for multilingual information retrieval in the medical domain

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ObjectiveWe investigate machine translation (MT) of user search queries in the context of cross-lingual information retrieval (IR) in the medical domain. The main focus is on techniques to adapt MT to increase translation quality; however, we also explore MT adaptation to improve effectiveness of cross-lingual IR.

论文关键词:Statistical machine translation,Domain adaptation of statistical machine translation,Intelligent training data selection for machine translation,Compound splitting,Cross-language information retrieval,Medical query translation

论文评审过程:Available online 5 February 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2014.01.004