The RATF formula (Kwok's formula): Exploiting average term frequency in cross-language retrieval

Information Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Pirkola, Ari ^a   Leppänen, Erkka ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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