Frequency-based identification of correct translation equivalents (FITE) obtained through transformation rules

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Pirkola, Ari ^a,b   Toivonen, Jarmo ^a,b   Keskustalo, Heikki ^a,b   Järvelin, Kalervo ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Department of Information Studies ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Fuzzy matching; OOV words; Transformation rules; Transliteration

Indexed keywords

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; FUZZY MATCHING; TRANSFORMATION RULES; TRANSLITERATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FUZZY RULES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 37049004149     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1292591.1292593     Document Type: Article

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