Combination approaches for multilingual text retrieval

Information Retrieval

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 183-204

  Braschler, Martin ^a,b  

^a Eurospider Information Technology AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Combination methods; Cross Language Information Retrieval; Merging; Operational systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843076340     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:inrt.0000009445.19495.46     Document Type: Review

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