In this paper, a multilingual cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) system is presented and evaluated in NTCIR-6 project. We use the language-independent indexing technology to process the text collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English languages. Different machine translation systems are used to translate the queries for bilingual and multilingual CLIR. The experimental results...

A Korean-Japanese-Chinese aligned wordnet, “CoreNet” is introduced. For the purpose of this paper, the term “wordnet” refers to a network of words. It is constructed based on a shared semantic hierarchy that is originated from NTT Goidaikei (Lexical Hierarchical System). Korean wordnet was constructed through the semantic category assignment to every meaning of Korean words in a dictionary. Ver...

There has been increasing interest in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages on the Web and the first objective of this paper is to compare the retrieval performances of nine vector-space and two probabilistic models when carrying out a monolingual search using these three Asian languages. Based on the latest NTCIR-3 test collection, our second goal is to analyze the relative merit of using...

As tokenization is usually ambiguous for many natural languages such as Chinese and Korean, tokenization errors might potentially introduce translation mistakes for translation systems that rely on 1-best tokenizations. While using lattices to offer more alternatives to translation systems have elegantly alleviated this problem, we take a further step to tokenize and translate jointly. Taking a...

In this paper, a multilingual cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) system is presented and evaluated in NTCIR-6 project. We use the language-independent indexing technology to process the text collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English languages. Different machine translation systems are used to translate the queries for bilingual and multilingual CLIR. The experimental results...

With a firm-level data set, we study the location decision of South Korean multinationals across China’s regions. Our conditional logit estimates confirm agglomeration effects along industry and along national lines.We add an upstream and downstream (backward and forward) linkage effect. We find that the presence of upstream and downstream South Korean affiliates significantly increases the lik...

Associations between letters and speech sounds form the basis of reading. Learning the correspondences between them is a crucial step in reading acquisition. Chinese and Korean subjects were presented with Mandarin Chinese tones (auditory: A), letters (visual: V), and simultaneous tones and character (audiovisual: AV). The neural basis of this interaction was investigated by subtracting the eve...

UC Berkeley participated in the pivot bilingual task of the CLIR track at NTCIR Workshop 4. Our focus was on Chinese and Korean searches against the Japanese News document collection, using English as a pivot language. For comparison of our pivot techniques, we submitted Japanese monolingual and English Japanese bilingual search rankings as well. Two different commercial translation software pa...

English: Sweet wormwood, Chinese wormwood, Sweet Annie French: Absinthe chinoise, armoise annuelle Chinese: Qinghao (pronounced ching how), Cao hao, Cao Qinghao, Cao Haozi, Chou Qinghao, Haoz, Kuhao, Xianghao, Xiang Qinghao, Xihehao Japanese: Kusoninijin Vietnamese: Than hao, Than cao hoa vang Korean: Chui ho, Hwang-hwa-ho, Gae-tong-sok German: Chinesischer Beifuß Pharmaceutical definitions: He...

BACKGROUND Overweight and obesity are considered a serious health problem. There are little data on the prevalence of overweight and obesity among the Yi ethnic group in China. This study aimed to investigate the epidemiologic features of overweight/obesity among Chinese Yi nationality. METHODS A cross-sectional study, including 1255 subjects aged 20-75 years, was carried out in Liangshan Yi ...