A study of statistical models for query translation: Finding a good unit of translation

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 194-201

  Gao, Jianfeng ^a   Nie, Jian Yun ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Linguistic structures; Query translation; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES; QUERY TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY PROCESSING;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 33750346748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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