@article {15888,
	title = {User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information retrieval},
	journal = {Information Processing \& Management},
	volume = {44},
	year = {2008},
	month = {2008/01//},
	pages = {181 - 211},
	abstract = {Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), a process in which searcher and system collaborate to find documents that satisfy an information need regardless of the language in which those documents are written, calls for designs in which synergies between searcher and system can be leveraged so that the strengths of one can cover weaknesses of the other. This paper describes an approach that employs user-assisted query translation to help searchers better understand the system{\^a}{\texteuro}{\texttrademark}s operation. Supporting interaction and interface designs are introduced, and results from three user studies are presented. The results indicate that experienced searchers presented with this new system evolve new search strategies that make effective use of the new capabilities, that they achieve retrieval effectiveness comparable to results obtained using fully automatic techniques, and that reported satisfaction with support for cross-language searching increased. The paper concludes with a description of a freely available interactive CLIR system that incorporates lessons learned from this research.},
	keywords = {Cross-language information retrieval, Machine translation, User studies},
	isbn = {0306-4573},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ipm.2006.12.009},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457307000337},
	author = {Oard, Douglas and He,Daqing and Wang,Jianqiang}
}
@inbook {13825,
	title = {Machine Translation: Interlingual Methods},
	booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Language \& Linguistics (Second Edition)Encyclopedia of Language \& Linguistics (Second Edition)},
	year = {2006},
	month = {2006///},
	pages = {383 - 394},
	publisher = {Elsevier},
	organization = {Elsevier},
	address = {Oxford},
	abstract = {An interlingua is a notation for representing the content of a text that abstracts away from the characteristics of the language itself and focuses on the meaning (semantics) alone. Interlinguas are typically used as pivot representations in machine translation, allowing the contents of a source text to be generated in many different target languages. Because of the complexities involved, few interlinguas are more than demonstration prototypes, and only one has been used in a commercial MT system. In this article, we define the components of an interlingua and the principal issues faced by designers and builders of interlinguas and interlingua MT systems, illustrating with examples from operational systems and research prototypes. We discuss current efforts to annotate texts with interlingua-based information.},
	keywords = {approximate interlingua, compositionality, conceptual knowledge, cross-language divergences, interlingua, interlingual speech translation, language-independent representation, lexical-conceptual structure, Machine translation, ontology, predicate-argument structure, semantic annotation, semantic frames, semantic zones, text-meaning representations, THEMATIC ROLES},
	isbn = {978-0-08-044854-1},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B0080448542009391},
	author = {Dorr, Bonnie J and Hovy,E. and Levin,L.},
	editor = {Editor-in-Chief:~~ Keith Brown}
}
@article {13886,
	title = {Use of Minimal Lexical Conceptual Structures for Single-Document Summarization},
	year = {2004},
	month = {2004/06//},
	institution = {Instititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park},
	abstract = {This reports provides an overview of the findings and software that have evolved from the Use of Minimal Lexical Conceptual Structures for Single-Document Summarization project over the last six months. We present the major goals that have been achieved and discuss some of the open issues that we intend to address in the near future. This report also contains some details on the usage of some software that has been implemented during the project.},
	keywords = {*COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, AUTOMATIC HEADLINE GENERATION, CYBERNETICS, DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION, Information retrieval, INFORMATION SCIENCE, linguistics, Machine translation},
	url = {http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?\&verb=getRecord\&metadataPrefix=html\&identifier=ADA458797},
	author = {Dorr, Bonnie J and Habash,Nizar Y and Monz,Christof and Schwartz,Richard}
}
@article {13846,
	title = {Rapid porting of DUSTer to Hindi},
	journal = {ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003/06//},
	pages = {118 - 123},
	abstract = {The frequent occurrence of divergences{\textemdash}structural differences between languages---presents a great challenge for statistical word-level alignment and machine translation. This paper describes the adaptation of DUSTer, a divergence unraveling package, to Hindi during the DARPA TIDES-2003 Surprise Language Exercise. We show that it is possible to port DUSTer to Hindi in under 3 days.},
	keywords = {Divergences, Machine translation},
	isbn = {1530-0226},
	doi = {10.1145/974740.974744},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/974740.974744},
	author = {Dorr, Bonnie J and Ayan,Necip Fazil and Habash,Nizar and Madnani,Nitin and Hwa,Rebecca}
}
@article {13809,
	title = {Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy},
	year = {2000},
	month = {2000/04//},
	institution = {Instititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park},
	abstract = {This paper addresses the problem of building conceptual resources for multilingual applications. We describe new techniques for large-scale construction of a semantic hierarchy for Chinese verbs, using thematic-role information to create links between Chinese concepts and English classes. We then present an approach to compensating for gaps in the existing resources. The resulting hierarchy is used for a multilingual lexicon for Chinese-English machine translation and cross-language information retrieval applications.},
	keywords = {*CHINESE VERBS, *HIERARCHIES, *SEMANTICS, CHINA, CROSS CORRELATION, Information retrieval, INFORMATION SCIENCE, LANGUAGE, LEXICONS, linguistics, Machine translation, MULTILINGUAL, operations research, SYSTEMS APPROACH},
	url = {http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?\&verb=getRecord\&metadataPrefix=html\&identifier=ADA458682},
	author = {Dorr, Bonnie J and Levow,Gina-Anne and Lin,Dekang}
}
