An ensemble of transliteration models for information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 980-1002

  Oh, Jong Hoon ^a,b   Choi, Key Sun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ensemble based transliteration model; Information retrieval; Machine learning; Machine transliteration; Web data

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; GLOSSARIES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ALPHABETS; ENSEMBLE-BASED TRANSLITERATION MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION; WEB DATA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 29244488760     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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