Automatic translation and multilingual cultural heritage retrieval: a case study with transcriptions in Europeana (report)

Europeana report of the experiment published in the paper Automatic translation and multilingual cultural heritage retrieval: a case study with transcriptions in Europeana. We run an experiment using the Europeana CH digital library as a use case, and we evaluated the effectiveness of a multilingual information retrieval strategy using machine translations to English as pivot language. We used the CEF translation service (eTranslation) for the translation of queries and content to English. Dataset also available at https://zenodo.org/record/5045066#.YToQFkNfjMU.