Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 159-166

  McNamee, Paul ^a   Mayfield, James ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Query expansion; Query translation; Translation resources

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS;

QUERY EXPANSION; TRANSLATION RESOURCES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036995530     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/564376.564406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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