Statistical cross-language information retrieval using N-best query translations

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 167-174

  Federico, Marcello ^a   Bertoldi, Nicola ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

CLIR; Query translation; Statistical model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036989574     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/564376.564407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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