Resolving query translation ambiguity using a decaying co-occurrence model and syntactic dependence relations

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 183-190

  Gao, Jianfeng ^a   Nie, Jian Yu ^b   He, Hongzhao ^c   Chen, Weijun ^d   Zhou, Ming ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CLIR; Co occurrence; Parse; Query translation; Statistical model

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY TRANSLATION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0036989446     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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