Abstract
Decompounding has been found to improve information retrieval (IR) effectiveness in general domains for languages such as German or Dutch. We investigate if cross-language patent retrieval can profit from decompounding. This poses two challenges: i) There may be few resources such as parallel corpora available for training an machine translation system for a compounding language. ii) Patents have a specific writing style and vocabulary ("paten-tese") Which may affect the performance of decompounding and translation methods. Experiments on data from the CLEF-IP 2010 task show that decompounding patents for translation can overcome out-of-vocabulary problems (OOV) and that decompounding improves IR performance significantly for small training corpora.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval |
| Pages | 1169-1170 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sep 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'11 - Beijing, China Duration: 24 Jul 2011 → 28 Jul 2011 |
Other
| Other | 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'11 |
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| Country | China |
| City | Beijing |
| Period | 24/7/11 → 28/7/11 |
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Keywords
- Decompounding
- Patent retrieval
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
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An investigation of decompounding for cross-language patent search. / Leveling, Johannes; Magdy, Walid; Jones, Gareth J F.
SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 2011. p. 1169-1170.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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