Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Problems, Methods, and Research Findings

Information Retrieval

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 209-230

  Pirkola, Ari ^a   Hedlund, Turid ^b   Keskustalo, Heikki ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Dictionary based translation; Structured queries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001321489     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011994105352     Document Type: Article

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