Simultaneous multilingual search for translingual information retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 719-728

  Parton, Kristen ^a   McKeown, Kathleen R ^a   Allan, James ^b   Henestroza, Enrique ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross lingual IR; Document translation; Query translation

Indexed keywords

CLOSE INTEGRATION; CROSS-LINGUAL IR; DOCUMENT LANGUAGES; DOCUMENT TRANSLATION; MULTI-LINGUAL SEARCH; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; NAMED ENTITIES; QUERY TERMS; QUERY TRANSLATION; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STRUCTURED QUERIES; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 70349231583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458082.1458179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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