Combining bidirectional translation and synonymy for cross-language information retrieval

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 202-209

  Wang, Jianqiang ^a   Oard, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language IR; Statistical translation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; QUERY LANGUAGES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; SEARCH ENGINES; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CROSS LANGUAGE IR; MONOLINGUAL BASELINES; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION; SYNONYMY; STATISTICAL TRANSLATIONS; SYNONYMYS; TRANSLATION PROBABILITIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33750350780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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