A first approach to CLIR using character n-grams alignment

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

Volumn 4730 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 111-118

  Vilares, Jesús ^a   Oakes, Michael P ^b   Tait, John I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment algorithms; Association measures; Character n grams; Cross language information retrieval; Translation algorithms

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; WORD PROCESSING;

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; ASSOCIATION MEASURES; CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TRANSLATION ALGORITHMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 38049158341     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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