Probabilistic Structured Query Methods

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 338-344

  Darwish, Kareem ^a   Oard, Douglas W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; CLIR; OCR; Structured Queries; Term Replacement

Indexed keywords

GLOSSARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (CLIR); STRUCTURED QUERIES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 1542347750     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/860496.860497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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