In this paper, we explore several statistical methods to find solutions to the problem of query translation ambiguity. Indeed, we propose and compare a new possibilistic approach for query translation derived from a probabilistic one, by applying a classical probability-possibility transformation of probability distributions, which introduces a certain tolerance in the selection of word translations. Finally, the best words are selected based on a similarity measure. The experiments are performed on CLEF-2003 French-English CLIR collection, which allowed us to test the effectiveness of the possibilistic approach. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.
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Ben Romdhane, W., Elayeb, B., Bounhas, I., Evrard, F., & Ben Saoud, N. B. (2013). A possibilistic query translation approach for cross-language information retrieval. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7996 LNAI, pp. 73–82). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39482-9_9
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