Statistical Machine Translation for query expansion in answer retrieval

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 464-471

  Riezler, Stefan ^a   Vasserman, Alexander ^a   Tsochantaridis, Ioannis ^a   Mittal, Vibhu ^a   Liu, Yi ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARE; LOCAL EXPANSION; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY EXPANSION TECHNIQUES; QUERY TERMS; QUESTION-ANSWER PAIRS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPANSION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 57749177391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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