A Collection of Persian-English Documents

The development of Language Engineering (LE) and Information Retrieval (IR) applications requires availability of sizeable, reliable and representative collection of documents. Moreover, cross hnguage Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems are widely used recently due to the explosion of non- documents. However, the lack of such a collection to be used in CLIR which deals with Persian retrieval is a big drawback in researches in this field This paper describes a 90MB Persian-English collection which contains 7073 documents generated fiom Wikipedia, an open encyclopedia, web site and is represented in XML format. We also use the RSLP collection description schema to describe our collection.

Keywords:

Collection of Documents , Bilingual , Persian-English , Wikipedia , RSLP schema