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Text retrieval systems provide a good test-bed for language processing technologies. Any qualitative or quantitative aspects of the language, i.e., lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, can be applied to these systems. A query as a representation of the user’s information need, is entered to a retrieval system, and the system retrieves the relevant documents from the (possibly gigabytes of) full-text database. Information retrieval (IR) relies on using the linguistic and statistical characteristics of the text. A comparative study of IR performance between two languages will help to understand the role of language in the retrieval process.
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Fujii, H., Croft, W.B. (1999). Comparing the Retrieval Performance of English and Japanese Text Databases. In: Armstrong, S., Church, K., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (eds) Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2390-9_17
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