Cross-lingual indexing and information retrieval
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a document database, the document database containing a group of documents, each document having been translated into multiple languages using a context-specific translation model where the context-specific translation model uses, at least in part, documents each having a link that points to a document to be translated;
a database of anchor text for links to a plurality of the documents in the document database, the database of anchor text having been translated into multiple languages using the context-specific translation model; and
one or more computers capable of executing a program which, when executed by the computers, performs operations comprising receiving a query in a given language and searching documents in the document database and the anchor text that are written in the given language, or that have been translated into the given language, for information responsive to the query, the given language being one of the multiple languages.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for searching across multi-lingual information. A user makes a query in a first language, and a group of documents that were previously machine-translated into the first language are searched for information responsive to the query. Contextual information derived can be used to improve the accuracy of the machine translation. Responsive documents are returned to the user. Alternatively, a query provided in a user'"'"'s language may be translated into one or more other languages. Documents written in these languages can then be searched for information responsive to the appropriate translated query. Responsive documents can be translated into the user'"'"'s language prior to providing them to the user.
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13 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a document database, the document database containing a group of documents, each document having been translated into multiple languages using a context-specific translation model where the context-specific translation model uses, at least in part, documents each having a link that points to a document to be translated; a database of anchor text for links to a plurality of the documents in the document database, the database of anchor text having been translated into multiple languages using the context-specific translation model; and one or more computers capable of executing a program which, when executed by the computers, performs operations comprising receiving a query in a given language and searching documents in the document database and the anchor text that are written in the given language, or that have been translated into the given language, for information responsive to the query, the given language being one of the multiple languages. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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creating a document database, the document database containing a group of documents, each document having been translated into multiple languages using a context-specific translation model where the context-specific translation model uses, at least in part, documents each having a link that points to a document to be translated; creating a database of anchor text for links to a plurality of the documents in the document database, the database of anchor text having been translated into multiple languages using the context-specific translation model; and receiving a query in a given language and searching documents in the document database and the anchor text that are written in the given language, or that have been translated into the given language, for information responsive to the query, the given language being one of the multiple languages; where the creating and receiving are performed by one or more processors. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A non-transitory computer readable media encoded with instructions that are operable, when executed by a computer, to cause the computer to perform operations comprising:
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creating a document database, the document database containing a group of documents, each document having been translated into multiple languages using a context-specific translation model where the context-specific translation model uses, at least in part, documents each having a link that points to a document to be translated; creating a database of anchor text for links to a plurality of the documents in the document database, the database of anchor text having been translated into multiple languages using the context-specific translation model; and receiving a query in a given language and searching documents in the document database and the anchor text that are written in the given language, or that have been translated into the given language, for information responsive to the query, the given language being one of the multiple languages. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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