Exploiting the web as the multilingual corpus for unknown query translation

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 660-670

  Wang, Jenq Haur ^a   Teng, Jei Wen ^a   Lu, Wen Hsiang ^a   Chien, Lee Feng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; GLOSSARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; CROSS-LINGUAL QUERIES; SEARCH-RESULT PAGES; TRANSLATION DICTIONARY;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 33645039047     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20328     Document Type: Article

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