OASIS at NTCIR-6: on-line query translation for Chinese-Japanese cross-lingual information retrieval

This paper reports results of Chinese – Japanese CLIR experiments using on-line query translation techniques. Approaches to employ English as a pilot language and to utilize several on-line translation systems are introduced. They were tested on NTCIR – 3, 4, 5, and 6 collections. Proposed procedures can be helpful under certain circumstances