TY  - SER
AU  - Pyae Phyo Thu
AU  - Janecek,Paul
AU  - Kovalainen,Mikko P.
AU  - Dailey,Mathew N.
ED  - Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship,
ED  - Prospect Burma Organization,
TI  - Cross language information retrieval: a case study of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) languages
T2  - Research studies project report
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Pathum Thani, Thailand
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Information retrieval
KW  - Cross-language information retrieval
N1  - A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science, School of Engineering and Technology; Research Studies Project Report (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2009
N2  - The  development  of  the  World  Wide  Web  and  associated  technologies  has  led  to  an   enormous increase in the availability of content in  multiple languages. Therefore research in the field o f Information Retrieval (IR) in  recent years has focused on problem s related to cross  language  information  retrieval (CLIR)   issues.  This  allows  the  user  who  makes  a   query  in  one  language  to  access  relevant  Information  in  other  languages,  which  is  m ore   beneficial and convenient than using multiple monolingual IR system s.   The objective of this re search work was to develop a CLIR fo r the languages of the Greater  Mekong  Sub-region  (GMS),  including:  Myanmar,  Thai,  Vietnamese,  Chinese  and  Lao   (Laotian).  T he  prototype  system   used  multiple   dictionaries  f or  translations,  and  the   Solar API for indexing and retrieval.   The  precision  and  usability  of  the  system   were  evaluated  by  students  from   the  GM S   countries.  T he  overall  result  of  the  precision   was  found  to  be  approximately  60  %  in  the   Myanmar, Thai, Vietnamese, and Lao languages,  but only 30% in the case of the Chinese  language.  Areas  for  future  improvement  of  the   system   are   the  dictionaries,  and  the  text   segmentation f or Chinese Unicode
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ER  -