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<Paper uid="H01-1033">
  <Title>Improved Cross-Language Retrieval using Backoff Translation</Title>
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ABSTRACT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The limited coverage of available translation lexicons can pose a serious challenge in some cross-language information retrieval applications. We present two techniques for combining evidence from dictionary-based and corpus-based translation lexicons, and show that backoff translation outperforms a technique based on merging lexicons.</Paragraph>
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