Cross lingual information retrieval (CLIR): Review of tools, challenges and translation approaches

Abstract

Today’s Web spreads all over the world and world’s communication over the internet leads to globalization and globalization makes it necessary to find information in any language. Since only one language is not recognized by all people across the world. Many people use their regional languages to express their needs and the language diversity becomes a great barrier. Cross Lingual Information Retrieval provides a solution for that barrier which allows a user to ask a query in native language and then to get the document in different language. This paper discusses the CLIR challenges, Query translation techniques and approaches for many Indian and foreign languages and briefly analyses the CLIR tools.