Cross-lingual IR provides new paradigms in searching
documents through myriad varieties of languages across the
world and it can be the baseline for searching not only
among two languages but also in multiple. This report
explains a description on cross-lingual IR, its challenges and
current methods and techniques to overcome problems for
efficient and resourceful searching. This report meant for
reviewing not all but some of the latest researches in the area
of cross-lingual IR.