Cross-lingual query suggestion using query logs of different languages

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 463-470

  Gao, Wei ^a   Niu, Cheng ^b   Nie, Jian Yun ^c   Zhou, Ming ^b   Hu, Jian ^b   Wong, Kam Fai ^a   Hon, Hsiao Wuen ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Query expansion; Query logs; Query suggestion; Query translation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY LOG; QUERY LOGS; QUERY SUGGESTION; QUERY TRANSLATION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 36448946128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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