SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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1. A system for searching a set of documents in one or more target languages when search terms in a source language different from said one or more target languages are supplied, said system comprising:
- a document base storing a plurality of target language documents with corresponding language codes and/or tags representing respective target languages;
a translation engine configured to translate a search query in the source language into a plurality of search queries in said one or more target languages;
a search part configured to search the plurality of target language documents in the document base using each of the plurality of target language search queries, to return a plurality of matched documents in the target language,wherein the translation engine translates the plurality of matched documents in the target language into corresponding translated documents in the source language.
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Abstract
Multi-lingual information retrieval methods and systems are described.
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1. A system for searching a set of documents in one or more target languages when search terms in a source language different from said one or more target languages are supplied, said system comprising:
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a document base storing a plurality of target language documents with corresponding language codes and/or tags representing respective target languages; a translation engine configured to translate a search query in the source language into a plurality of search queries in said one or more target languages; a search part configured to search the plurality of target language documents in the document base using each of the plurality of target language search queries, to return a plurality of matched documents in the target language, wherein the translation engine translates the plurality of matched documents in the target language into corresponding translated documents in the source language. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A multi-lingual information retrieval system comprising:
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a translation engine configured to translate a first source language term to a corresponding first target language term, and translate a second target language term to a corresponding second source language term; a document base storing a plurality of target language documents and corresponding translated documents in the source language, the documents being stored in the documents base with corresponding language codes and/or tags; a language selection part configured to receive a language selection in connection with the documents in the document base, search the language codes and/or tags in the document base to find specific documents tagged with a specific language code and/or tag, and return the specific documents in the selected language; a search part configured to receive a query in the source language, supply one or more query terms to be translated by said translation engine, receive translated terms in the target language from the translation engine, search the document base using the translated terms to find relevant documents in the target language, and return search results including selected translated source-language documents from the document base corresponding to the relevant documents. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A multi-lingual information retrieval system comprising:
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a vote store configured to store for each target language term vote counts for respective source language translation options corresponding to the target language term; and a translation engine configured to translate a target language document to a translated document in the source language, wherein said translation engine translates a selected term in the target language document by retrieving from said vote store a source language translation option corresponding to the selected term, said retrieved translation option having a highest vote count amongst source language translation options corresponding to the selected target language term. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A multi-lingual information retrieval method comprising:
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maintaining a vote store to store for each target language term vote counts for respective source language translation options corresponding to the target language term; and translating a selected term in a target language document by retrieving from said vote store a source language translation option corresponding to the selected term, wherein said retrieved translation option has a highest vote count amongst source language translation options corresponding to the selected target language term. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A method for searching a set of documents in a target language when search terms in a source language different from the target language are supplied, said method comprising:
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translating a search query in the source language into a plurality of search queries in the target language; searching a target language document set in the target language using each of the plurality of target language search queries, to return a plurality of target language documents; translating the plurality of target language documents into corresponding translated documents in the source language. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)
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80. A multi-lingual information retrieval method comprising:
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storing in a document base a plurality of target language documents and corresponding translated documents in the source language; receiving a query in the source language; translating one or more source language query terms into translated terms in the target language; searching the document base using the translated target language terms to find relevant documents in the target language; returning search results including selected translated source-language documents from the document base corresponding to the relevant documents; and - View Dependent Claims (81)
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