English Access To Hindi Information

We present C*ST*RD, a cross-language information delivery system that supports cross-language
information retrieval, information space visualization and navigation, machine translation, and
text summarization of single documents and clusters of documents. C*ST*RD was assembled
and trained within one month, in the context of DARPA's Surprise Language Exercise, that
selected as source a heretofore unstudied language, Hindi. Given the brief time, we could not
create deep Hindi capabilities for all the modules, but instead experimented with combining.