Dictionary-based techniques for cross-language information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 523-547

  Levow, Gina Anne ^a   Oard, Douglas W ^b   Resnik, Philip ^b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Dictionary based translation; Ranked retrieval

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE; MAPS;

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; DICTIONARY-BASED TRANSLATION; RANKED RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 10644262091     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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