A statistical framework for query translation disambiguation

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 360-387

  Liu, Yi ^a,b   Jin, Rong ^a,b   Chai, Joyce Y ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Co occurrence statistics; Cross language information retrieval; Graph partitioning; Maximum coherence

Indexed keywords

CO-OCCURRENCE STATISTICS; CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (CLIR); GRAPH PARTITIONING; MAXIMUM COHERENCE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34147204764     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1236181.1236185     Document Type: Article

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