Translating cross-lingual spelling variants using transformation rules

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 859-872

  Toivonen, Jarmo ^a   Pirkola, Ari ^a   Keskustalo, Heikki ^a   Visala, Kari ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross language retrieval; Fuzzy matching; Transliteration

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; GLOSSARIES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

CROSS-LANGUAGE RETRIEVAL; FUZZY MATCHING; TARGET LANGUAGE QUERIES; TRANSLITERATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 11144235212     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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