System for providing cross-lingual information retrieval

摘要

An information retrieval system providing for cross-lingual information retrieval. The method as implemented in the system causes elementary words to be extracted from a search expression. These elementary words are translated and stemmed into the target language(s). Searches are then made for documents containing combinations of the stemmed and translated elementary words. When documents are retrieved they are verified that they contain the same linguistic structure as the initial search expression. Documents that cannot be verified are eliminated from the set of search documents returned to the user.