Applying query structuring in cross-language retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 391-402

  Pirkola, Ari ^a   Puolamäki, Deniz ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Compound word processing; Cross language information retrieval; n Gram matching; Proper name searching; Structured queries

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; FORMAL LANGUAGES; GLOSSARIES; QUERY LANGUAGES; WORD PROCESSING;

QUERY STRUCTURING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0037408709     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(02)00091-2     Document Type: Article

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