Chinese OOV Translation and Post-translation Query Expansion in Chinese-English Cross-lingual Information Retrieval

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 57-77

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Vines, Phil ^a   Zobel, Justin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithms; CLIR; HMM; Languages; mutual information; OOV terms; post translation query expansion; query translations; translation disambiguation; web mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751365487     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1105696.1105697     Document Type: Article

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