Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval as a Side Effect of Tagging

Tagging is used for annotating and categorizing documents, and facilitating information retrieval. Users use tags freely to express their views of the provided content. This freedom allows the user to use any language in tagging. This can be considered as an aid for cross-lingual information retriev...

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Published in2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing pp. 582 - 586
Main Authors Elhussein, Mariam, Nakata, Keiichi
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2010
Subjects
CLIR
Collaboration
del.icio.us
Google
Semantics
Stochastic processes
Tagging
user collaboration
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Summary:Tagging is used for annotating and categorizing documents, and facilitating information retrieval. Users use tags freely to express their views of the provided content. This freedom allows the user to use any language in tagging. This can be considered as an aid for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) since it can help retrieve documents and other contents from different languages other than the query language. This paper investigates the use of Arabic tags in del.icio.us and analyzes the role they play in CLIR.
ISBN:1424484391
9781424484393
DOI:10.1109/SocialCom.2010.92