Anchor text mining for translation of web queries: A transitive translation approach

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 242-269

  Lu, Wen Hsiang ^a,c   Chien, Lee Feng ^b,d   Lee, Hsi Jian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RESOURCES; MULTILINGUAL LEXICONS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; WEB QUERIES;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; TEXT PROCESSING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 3042778919     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/984321.984324     Document Type: Article

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