A hybrid technique for English-Chinese cross language information retrieval

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Zhou, Dong ^a   Truran, Mark ^b   Brailsford, Tim ^a   Ashman, Helen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Disambiguation; Graph based analysis; Patterns; Unknown term translation

Indexed keywords

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GRAPH-BASED ANALYSIS; UNKNOWN TERM TRANSLATION;

GRAPH THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 44649150175     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1362782.1362784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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