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Automatic Query Automatic Query Transliteration for Cross- Transliteration for Cross- lingual Information Retrieval lingual Information Retrieval Prof. Wong Kam-Fai Prof. Wong Kam-Fai Dept. of Systems Engineering and Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Engineering Management The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong WISA’2005, Shenyang, 24-26/9/05 WISA’2005, Shenyang, 24-26/9/05 Outline Outline Cross-lingual Information Retrieval Cross-lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) (CLIR) Machine Transliteration for CLIR Machine Transliteration for CLIR Our Approach Our Approach Experiments Experiments Conclusions Conclusions Cross-lingual Information Retrieval Cross-lingual Information Retrieval Global Internet User Population Global Internet User Population 2000 2005 5% 8% 9% 8% 32% 6% 5% 5% English 3% 52% English 5% Chinese 4% 4% 6% 21% 3% 3%