2 papers
cs.IR2025
Lost in Transliteration: Bridging the Script Gap in Neural IR
Andreas Chari, Iadh Ounis, Sean MacAvaney
Most human languages use scripts other than the Latin alphabet. Search users in these languages often formulate their information needs in a transliterated -- usually Latinized --…
cs.IR2025
Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer
Andreas Chari, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
Globalisation and colonisation have led the vast majority of the world to use only a fraction of languages, such as English and French, to communicate, excluding many others. This…