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Towards effective cross-lingual search of user-generated internet speech

Khwileh, Ahmad (2018) Towards effective cross-lingual search of user-generated internet speech. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Abstract
The very rapid growth in user-generated social spoken content on online platforms is creating new challenges for Spoken Content Retrieval (SCR) technologies. There are many potential choices for how to design a robust SCR framework for UGS content, but the current lack of detailed investigation means that there is a lack of understanding of the specifc challenges, and little or no guidance available to inform these choices. This thesis investigates the challenges of effective SCR for UGS content, and proposes novel SCR methods that are designed to cope with the challenges of UGS content. The work presented in this thesis can be divided into three areas of contribution as follows. The first contribution of this work is critiquing the issues and challenges that in influence the effectiveness of searching UGS content in both mono-lingual and cross-lingual settings. The second contribution is to develop an effective Query Expansion (QE) method for UGS. This research reports that, encountered in UGS content, the variation in the length, quality and structure of the relevant documents can harm the effectiveness of QE techniques across different queries. Seeking to address this issue, this work examines the utilisation of Query Performance Prediction (QPP) techniques for improving QE in UGS, and presents a novel framework specifically designed for predicting of the effectiveness of QE. Thirdly, this work extends the utilisation of QPP in UGS search to improve cross-lingual search for UGS by predicting the translation effectiveness. The thesis proposes novel methods to estimate the quality of translation for cross-lingual UGS search. An empirical evaluation that demonstrates the quality of the proposed method on alternative translation outputs extracted from several Machine Translation (MT) systems developed for this task. The research then shows how this framework can be integrated in cross-lingual UGS search to find relevant translations for improved retrieval performance.
Metadata
Item Type:Thesis (PhD)
Date of Award:November 2018
Refereed:No
Supervisor(s):Jones, Gareth J.F.
Uncontrolled Keywords:user-generated internet content; cross-lingual search; user-generated speech
Subjects:Computer Science > Information retrieval
Computer Science > Multimedia systems
Computer Science > Information storage and retrieval systems
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:22627
Deposited On:21 Nov 2018 09:50 by Gareth Jones . Last Modified 13 Dec 2019 15:29
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