Cross-Language Information Retrieval Resources

This page was designed as a resource for people conducting research in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) during the second "golden age" of CLIR (the first such age having extended from 1964-1985, principally working at that time on thesaurus-based techniques). It was intended to collect references to all information on information retrieval systems which can accept queries in one language and return documents in another. It was created by the Digital Library Research Group of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. The information was most current and complete between 1995 and 1999. No updates have been made since 2002, so many not the links are no longer working. The Internet Archive's cached copies of this page should be useful as a way of recovering broken links, however.
December 1997 D-lib Magazine Article
An introduction to cross-language information retrieval. A web page that was prepared for a public lecture here at Maryland provides another perspective on the topic.
Conferences
An excellent source of information. This page includes links to the full proceedings of most major cross-language information retrieval workshops as well as to a fairly complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops that include some treatment of cross-language information retrieval.
Cross-Language Information Retrieval Papers and Project Descriptions
Another excellent place to look for information. Here you will find descriptions of experimental work on cross-language text retrieval that may not have been presented at one of the major workshops
Working Systems
Here you will find links to experimental and commercial cross-language information retrieval systems that you can either obtain or use over the net. Some carry a fairly hefty price tag, others are free.
Related Resource Pages
Web pages which collect links to resources that may be of interest to cross-language information retrieval researchers. None of these pages are devoted solely to cross-language information retrieval.

Last modified: Fri Mar 14 10:28:44 2008
Doug Oard oard@glue.umd.edu