Iterative translation disambiguation for cross-language information retrieval

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 520-527

  Monz, Christof ^a   Dorr, Bonnie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

cross language retrieval; query formulation; term co occurrence measures; term weighting; translation disambiguation

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LANGUAGE RETRIEVAL; QUERY FORMULATION; TERM CO-OCCURRENCE; TERM WEIGHTING; TRANSLATION DISAMBIGUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34147220865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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