Issues in Machine Translation of Indian Languages for Information Retrieval

Abstract— Natural languages differ from one geographical location to the other. In India, there are 22 official languages [1]. Many documents have been digitized as a result of the advancement of information technology. Machine Translation Systems (MTS), as well as information retrieval systems, are required in order to retrieve any information from an existing digital document in any natural language. This paper describes some of the most important domains in information retrieval where Machine Translation (MT) is essential, such as Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) and Multi-Lingual Information Retrieval (MLIR).
Keywords-Machine Translation; CLIR; MLIR; MTS