Sumam, Mary Idicula; Nikesh, P L; David, Peter S(IEEE, 2008)
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Abstract:
This paper describes about an English-Malayalam
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval system. The system
retrieves Malayalam documents in response to query given in
English or Malayalam. Thus monolingual information retrieval is
also supported in this system. Malayalam is one of the most
prominent regional languages of Indian subcontinent. It is
spoken by more than 37 million people and is the native language
of Kerala state in India. Since we neither had any full-fledged
online bilingual dictionary nor any parallel corpora to build the
statistical lexicon, we used a bilingual dictionary developed in
house for translation. Other language specific resources like
Malayalam stemmer, Malayalam morphological root analyzer etc
developed in house were used in this work