The effects of high quality translations of named entities in cross-language information exploration

2008 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLP-KE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wu, Dan ^a   He, Daqing ^b   Ji, Heng ^c   Grishman, Ralph ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language information exploration; Named entity

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION; CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION EXPLORATION; CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; EVENT DRIVEN; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN LANGUAGE; INFORMATION EXPLORATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TEST COLLECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 67650360388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NLPKE.2008.4906770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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