Japanese/english cross-language information retrieval: Exploration of query translation and transliteration

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 389-420

  Fujii, Atsushi ^a   Ishikawa, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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