The effect of translation quality in MT-based cross-language information retrieval

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 593-600

  Zhu, Jiang ^a   Wang, Haifeng ^a  

^a Toshiba China Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; IR SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RULE BASE; RULE BASED; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 41849083583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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