Task

Multilingual Retrieval

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/multilingual-retrieval/

Retrieval over collections, queries, users, or results involving more than one language.

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Scope

Multilingual retrieval is a broader setting than cross-language retrieval. It may include multiple monolingual indexes, mixed-language collections, multilingual result lists, language-specific processing, or cross-language retrieval where query and result languages differ.

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Not equivalent to

  • Multilingual Retrieval is not Cross-Language Retrieval. Cross-language retrieval is the specific case where a query in one language retrieves relevant material in another; multilingual retrieval is the broader multi-language retrieval setting.

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