Query Translation vs. Cross-Lingual Embeddings for Sinhala-Tamil E-Government Information Retrieval

This paper presents a comparative evaluation of cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) methods for retrieving English government information using Sinhala and Tamil queries. Two CLIR paradigms are investigated: Query Translation (QT), employing Google Translate, NLLB, and mBART50, and Cross-Ling...