Rich Results From Poor Resources: NTCIR-4 Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Retrieval of Korean Texts Using Chinese and English

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 136-162

  Kwok, Kui Lam ^a   Choi, Sora ^a   Dinstl, Norbert ^a  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

bigram indexing; Chinese English Korean pivot CLIR; Chinese Korean CLIR; Experimentation; translation disambiguation; Web based entity oriented translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 39649086547     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1105696.1105700     Document Type: Article

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