English-to-French CLIR: A knowledge-light approach through character N-grams alignment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5152 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 148-155

  Vilares, Jesús ^a   Oakes, Michael P ^b   Vilares, Manuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

BILINGUAL TASKS; CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; N-GRAMS; OUT OF VOCABULARY WORDS; QUERY TRANSLATIONS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 70349788984     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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