Cross-Language Retrieval in English and Vietnamese

Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval

Volume

Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

A cross-lingual Vieinamese-English retrieval system should enable Vietnamese speaker.s to retrieve documents written in English, and likewise English speakers should be able to retrieve documents written in Vietnamese. We have conducted preliminary experiment, s to investigate such possibilities. Using a simple language transformation algorithm that we have developed, our results indicate that crosslanguage retrieval for English and Vietnamese using bilingual dictionaries is feasible.