Concept unification of terms in different languages via web mining for Information Retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 246-262

  Li, Qing ^a   Chen, Yuanzhu Peter ^b   Myaeng, Sung Hyon ^c   Jin, Yun ^c   Kang, Bo Yeong ^d  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cross language; Indexing; Information Retrieval; Machine translation; Out of vocabulary (OOV) words

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WORLD WIDE WEB;

ASIAN LANGUAGES; BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES; CROSS-LANGUAGE; INDEXING; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATIVE LANGUAGES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OUT-OF-VOCABULARY (OOV) WORDS; PROPER NOUNS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SEARCH QUERIES; TEST COLLECTIONS; WEB DOCUMENTS; WEB MININGS; WEB PAGES; WEB-MINING APPROACHES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 60249094191     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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