%0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval %D 2006 %T Combining bidirectional translation and synonymy for cross-language information retrieval %A Wang,Jianqiang %A Oard, Douglas %K cross-language IR %K statistical translation %X This paper introduces a general framework for the use of translation probabilities in cross-language information retrieval based on the notion that information retrieval fundamentally requires matching what the searcher means with what the author of a document meant. That perspective yields a computational formulation that provides a natural way of combining what have been known as query and document translation. Two well-recognized techniques are shown to be a special case of this model under restrictive assumptions. Cross-language search results are reported that are statistically indistinguishable from strong monolingual baselines for both French and Chinese documents. %B Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval %S SIGIR '06 %I ACM %C New York, NY, USA %P 202 - 209 %8 2006/// %@ 1-59593-369-7 %G eng %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148170.1148208 %R 10.1145/1148170.1148208