MT-based Japanese-English cross-language IR experiments using the TREC test collections

Proceedings of the 5th international Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, IRAL 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 181-188

  Sakai, Tetsuya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Machine translation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; QUALITY CONTROL;

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; CROSS LANGUAGES; DOMINANT FACTOR; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PSEUDO RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; QUERY LENGTHS; TEST COLLECTION; TRANSLATION PROCESS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 62849112866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/355214.355240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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