My interest in research include broad areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, multi-document and multilingual summarization, the World Wide Web, Cross-Language Information Retrieval  (CLIR), evaluations using CLEF,TREC and NTCIR data collections, etc.

The following list of publications is related      to my Ph.D. research
while at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan.

1. Fatiha Sadat. Enhancing Cross-language Information Retrieval by an Automatic Acquisition of Bilingual Terminology from Comparable Corpora. To be submitted   (in preparation).
   
2. Hervé Déjean, Eric Gaussier, Jean Michel Renders and Fatiha Sadat. Automatic Processing of Multilingual Medical Terminology: Applications to Thesaurus Enrichment and Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM), Special Issue on Summarization and Information Extraction from Medical Documents (to appear).
3. Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Exploiting and Combining Multiple Resources for Query Expansion in  Cross-Language Information Retrieval. IPSJ Transactions of Databases, Vol. 43, No.SIG 9 (TOD 15),  pp.39-54, Sep. 2002.

1. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Exploiting Comparable Corpora for Bilingual Terminology Acquisition in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. Information Technology Letters of  FIT 2003, Sep. 2003.

1. Fatiha Sadat. Knowledge Acquisition from Collections of News Articles to Cross-language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of RIAO 2004 conference (Recherche d’Information Assisté par Ordinateur), Avignon, France, pp. 504-513, Apr. 26-28, 2004.
   
2. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. A Corpus-based Approach for the Acquisition of Bilingual Terminology and Dictionaries Enrichment: A case Study on Japanese-English. In Proceedings of the Asian Association for lexicography ASIALEX  2003, Tokyo, Japan, August 27-29,  2003.
   
3. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Enhancing Cross-language Information Retrieval by an Automatic Acquisition of Bilingual Terminology from Comparable Corpora. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International  ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR 2003, Toronto , Canada, Jul. 28-Aug. 1,  2003.
4. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Bilingual Terminology Acquisition from Comparable Corpora and Phrasal Translation to Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2003 ,  Sapporo, Japan, July 7-12, 2003. 
5. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Learning Bilingual Translations from Comparable Corpora to Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Hybrid Statistics-based and Linguistics-based Approach. In Proceedings of the Sixth Internation Workshop on Information Retieval with Asian Languages IRAL 2003, Sapporo, Japan,  July 7, 2003. 
6. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Shunsuke Uemura. Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Multiple Resources and Combinations for Query Expansion. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Information Systems ADVIS 2002, Izmir, Turkey, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, Vol. 2457, pp.114-122, Oct. 23-25, 2002.
7. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Exploiting Thesauri and Hierarchical Categories in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2002, Brno, Czech Republic, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer-Verlag, Vol. 2448, pp.139-146, Sep. 9-12, 2002.  
8. Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. A Combined Statistical Query Term Disambiguation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems  NLIS 2002, in conjunction with DEXA 2002, pp. 251-255, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sep. 2-3, 2002.
9. Hervé Déjean, Éric Gaussier and Fatiha Sadat. Bilingual Terminology Extraction: An Approach based on a Multilingual thesaurus Applicable to Comparable Corpora.  In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING 2002, pp. 218-224, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 24-Sep. 1, 2002.
   
10. Hervé Déjean, Éric Gaussier and Fatiha Sadat. Bilingual lexicon Extraction: Using and Enriching Multilingual Thesauri. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering TKE 2002, Nancy, France, Aug. 28-30, 2002.
11. Fatiha Sadat, Hervé Déjean and Éric Gaussier.  A Combination of Models for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora.  In Proceedings of  Papillon 2002 Seminar, Tokyo, Japan, Jul. 16-18, 2002.
12. Fatiha Sadat. Cross-Language Information Retrieval via Hybrid Combination of Query Expansion Techniques. In Proceedings of the ACL-02 Student Research Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Jul. 7-12, 2002.  
13. Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Statistical Query Disambiguation, Translation and Expansion in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the LREC 2002 Workshop on Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering: State of the Art and Future Research, Las Palmas, Spain, May-June, 2002. 
14. Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda , Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Query Expansion Techniques for the CLEF Bilingual Track.  In Proceedings of the CLEF 2001 Workshop on Cross-language System Evaluation Campaign, pp. 99-104, Darmstadt, Germany, Sep. 2001. 
• A revised version of this paper appeared in Springer Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 2406. Carol Peters, Martin Braschler, Julio Gonzalo, Michael Kluck (Eds.). Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems. Second  Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2001. Darmstadt, Germany, September 2001.Revised papers. Springer-Verlag, LNCS 2406, pp. 177-184. 2002.
15. Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura.Cross-Language Information Retrieval via Dictionary-based and Statistics-based Methods. In Proceedings ofthe 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and SignalProcessing PACRIM'01, Victoria, Canada, Aug. 2001.  
16.  Akira Maeda, Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Query Term Disambiguation for Web Cross-Language Information Retrieval using a Search Engine. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages IRAL 2000, pp. 25-32, Hong Kong, China, Sep. 2000.

1. Fatiha Sadat, Kyo Kageura, and Akiko Aizawa. Comparable Corpora for Terminology Practice. In Proceedings of the NLP 2004 workshop for Named Entities and Terminology. Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 15-19, 2004.
2. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Translating with Scarce Resources in Cross-Language Information Retrieval:  A Case Study on Japanese-English. In Proceedings of　the　155 回 自然言語処理研究会 (SIGNL-155), Tokyo, Japan, May 2003.  
3. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. The Role of Query Expansion Techniques in French-English Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of Journées Science and Technology Workshop 2002 (JST 2002). Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2002.
4. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Combining Multiple Knowledge Sources for an Efficient Query Expansion in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings   of the  First Forum on Information Technology 2002 (FIT 2002) Tokyo, Japan, pp. 67-68. Sept.2002.  
5. Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Applying Multiple Resources for Query Expansion in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In IPSJ SIG Notes, 2002-FI-66 / 2002-DD-32 , Mar. 2002. 
6. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. A Case Study on French-English Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of Journées Science and Technology Workshop 2001 (JST 2001).  Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2001. 
7. Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda , Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Cross-Language InformationRetrieval via Dictionary-based  and Statistices-based Methods. InProceedings   of the 12th Data Engineering Workshop DEWS 2001 , Izu Atagawa, Japan, Mar. 2001. 
8. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Integrating Dictionary-based and Statistical-based Approaches in Cross-language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of Journées Science and Technology Workshop 2000 (JST 2000). Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2000. 
   
9. Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda , Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Shunsuke Uemura. Integrating Dictionary-basedand Statistical-based Approaches in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In IPSJ SIGNotes, 2000-DBS-121 / 2000-FI-58 , pp. 61-68, May 2000.

1. Fatiha Sadat. Case studies on Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Bilingual Terminology Acquisition from Comparable Corpora.  Doctor of Engineering. Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Scienceand Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan, Sep. 2003 (English version).
2. Fatiha Sadat. Cross-Language Information Retrieval via Dictionary-based and Statistics-based Methods. Master of Engineering. Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Scienceand Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan, Sep. 2000 (English version). 
3. Fatiha Sadat. Conception and Realization of an Abstract Data Types Management System for Object Oriented Databases. Engineering Thesis. Graduate School of Information Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (U.S.T.H.B.) Algiers, Algeria, Sep. 1994 (French version).

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