Adapting the JIRS passage retrieval system to the arabic language

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4394 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 530-541

  Benajiba, Yassine ^a   Rosso, Paolo ^a   Soriano, José Manuel Gómez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARABIC PASSAGES; ARABIC QUESTION ANSWERING (QA); JAVA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM (JIRS);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 37149034962     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70939-8_47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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