Task

Cross-Language Retrieval

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/cross-language-retrieval/

Retrieval in which the user's query or information need is expressed in one language and relevant retrieved items may be written in another language.

Also called

Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Cross-Lingual Retrieval
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
CLIR

Scope

Cross-language retrieval is often called cross-lingual information retrieval. It is narrower than multilingual retrieval and commonly involves query translation, document translation, multilingual representations, or cross-lingual embeddings.

Broader

Multilingual Retrieval

Retrieval

Not equivalent to

Cross-Language Retrieval is not Multilingual Retrieval. Cross-language retrieval specifically crosses a query-result language boundary; multilingual retrieval also covers broader multi-language collections and systems.

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Cross-language Information Retrieval
Text REtrieval Conference

ID

Canonical ID
https://id.searchplex.net/cross-language-retrieval/
Scheme
Searchplex ID
Machine
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