Early Results

Back in '88, we tried this and did a few quick tests to see if the result made any sense. It was quite promising:

• mate retrieval: use a French translation of an English document as a query to a collection of English documents. Finds the correct mate in the 99% range.
• consistency: Use a short query-like English phrase to retrieve English documents and French translations. About 4 out of top 10 the same.
• term-term similarities: take a random English term and look at which other terms are closest to it in French. Often quite sensible!