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Query Translation for Cross-lingual Search in the Academic Search Engine PubPsych

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Author(s) / Creator(s)

España-Bonet, Cristina
Stiller, Juliane
Ramthun, Roland
van Genabith, Josef
Petras, Vivien

Abstract / Description

We describe a lexical resource-based process for query translation of a domain-specific and multilingual academic search engine in psychology, PubPsych. PubPsych queries are diverse in language with a high amount of informational queries and technical terminology. We present an approach for translating queries into English, German, French, and Spanish. We build a quadrilingual lexicon with aligned terms in the four languages using MeSH, Wikipedia and Apertium as our main resources. Our results show that using the quadlexicon together with some simple translation rules, we can automatically translate 85% of translatable tokens in PubPsych queries with mean adequacy over all the translatable text of 1.4 when measured on a 3-point scale [0,1,2].

Keyword(s)

machine translation information retrieval translation evaluation

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Date of first publication

2018

Publisher

PsychArchives

Citation

España-Bonet, C., Stiller, J., Ramthun, R., Van Genabith, J., & Petras, V. (2018). Query Translation for Cross-lingual Search in the Academic Search Engine PubPsych. PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1062
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    España-Bonet, Cristina
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Stiller, Juliane
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Ramthun, Roland
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    van Genabith, Josef
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Petras, Vivien
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2018-11-15T12:34:26Z
  • Made available on
    2018-11-15T12:34:26Z
  • Date of first publication
    2018
  • Abstract / Description
    We describe a lexical resource-based process for query translation of a domain-specific and multilingual academic search engine in psychology, PubPsych. PubPsych queries are diverse in language with a high amount of informational queries and technical terminology. We present an approach for translating queries into English, German, French, and Spanish. We build a quadrilingual lexicon with aligned terms in the four languages using MeSH, Wikipedia and Apertium as our main resources. Our results show that using the quadlexicon together with some simple translation rules, we can automatically translate 85% of translatable tokens in PubPsych queries with mean adequacy over all the translatable text of 1.4 when measured on a 3-point scale [0,1,2].
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  • Publication status
    other
  • Review status
    reviewed
  • Sponsorship
    This research was supported by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft under grant SAW-2016-ZPID-2.
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  • Citation
    España-Bonet, C., Stiller, J., Ramthun, R., Van Genabith, J., & Petras, V. (2018). Query Translation for Cross-lingual Search in the Academic Search Engine PubPsych. PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1062
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  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/870
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1062
  • Language of content
    eng
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  • Publisher
    PsychArchives
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  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.928
  • Keyword(s)
    machine translation
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  • Keyword(s)
    information retrieval
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  • Keyword(s)
    translation evaluation
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Query Translation for Cross-lingual Search in the Academic Search Engine PubPsych
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  • DRO type
    preprint
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