Making MIRACLEs: Interactive translingual search for Cebuano and Hindi

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-244

  He, Daqing ^a   Oard, Douglas W ^a   Wang, Jianqiang ^a   Luo, Jun ^a   Demner Fushman, Dina ^a   Darwish, Kareem ^a   Resnik, Philip ^a   Khudanpur, Sanjeev ^b   Nossal, Michael ^a   Subotin, Michael ^a   Leuski, Anton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Interactive information retrieval; Machine translation

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 24944538491     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15300226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/979872.979876     Document Type: Article

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