东方语言与欧洲语言在跨语言检索上的困难

       The difficulties of cross-lingual information retrieval between European and Oriental languages are comparatively higher than the difficulties among European languages. These are due to several reasons: 1) machine translation techniques between European and Oriental languages are rather less mature, 2) parallel comparable corpus in European and Oriental languages are comparatively rare, 3) the grammar of European and Oriental languages are significantly different. As English and Chinese are the most popular languages in the world, the desire on an efficient and effective Chinese-English cross-lingual information retrieval system is significant although there are still many research problems to be solved.