User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 181-211

  Oard, Douglas W ^a   He, Daqing ^b   Wang, Jianqiang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Machine translation; User studies

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MACHINE TRANSLATION; USER STUDIES;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 35549002211     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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