Translation enhancement: A new relevance feedback method for cross-language information retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 729-738

  He, Daqing ^a   Wu, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Query expansion; Relevance feedback; Translation enhancement

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACKS; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY TERMS; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK METHOD; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; TRANSLATION ENHANCEMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEEDBACK; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 70349234555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458082.1458180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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