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Title Correlation between Similarity Measures for Inter-Language Linked Wikipedia Articles
Authors Monica Lestari Paramita, Paul Clough, Ahmet Aker and Robert Gaizauskas
Abstract Wikipedia articles in different languages have been mined to support various tasks, such as Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) and Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). Articles on the same topic in different languages are often connected by inter-language links, which can be used to identify similar or comparable content. In this work, we investigate the correlation between similarity measures utilising language-independent and language-dependent features and respective human judgments. A collection of 800 Wikipedia pairs from 8 different language pairs were collected and judged for similarity by two assessors. We report the development of this corpus and inter-assessor agreement between judges across the languages. Results show that similarity measured using language independent features is comparable to using an approach based on translating non-English documents. In both cases the correlation with human judgments is low but also dependent upon the language pair. The results and corpus generated from this work also provide insights into the measurement of cross-language similarity.
Topics Evaluation methodologies, Multilinguality, Document Classification, Text categorisation
Full paper Correlation between Similarity Measures for Inter-Language Linked Wikipedia Articles
Bibtex @InProceedings{PARAMITA12.426,
  author = {Monica Lestari Paramita and Paul Clough and Ahmet Aker and Robert Gaizauskas},
  title = {Correlation between Similarity Measures for Inter-Language Linked Wikipedia Articles},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)},
  year = {2012},
  month = {may},
  date = {23-25},
  address = {Istanbul, Turkey},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7},
  language = {english}
 }
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