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  <Title>Automatic Processing of Foreign Language Documents</Title>
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7. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> An experiment using a multi-lingual thesaurus in conjunction with two d~.fferent document collections, in German and English respectively, has shown that cross-language processing (for example, German queries against English documents) is nearly as effective as processing within a single language. Furthermore, a simple translation of thesaurus categories appears  to produce a document content analysis which is equally effective in English as in German. In particular, differences in morphology (for example, in the suffix cut-off rules\], and in language ambiguities do not seem to cause a substantial degradation when moving from one language to another.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> For these reasons, the automatic retrieval methods used in the SMART system for English appear to be applicable also to foreign language material.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Future experiments with foreign language documents should be carried out using a thesaurus that is reasonably complete in all languages, and with identical query and document collections for which the same relevance judgments may then be applicable across all runs.</Paragraph>
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