A knowledge-light approach to query translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn 2007-January, Issue , 2007, Pages 624-630

  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

Alignment algorithms; Association measures; Character n grams; Cross Language Information Retrieval; Translation algorithms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; APPLIED PHYSICS; ASSOCIATION MEASURES; CHARACTER N-GRAM; CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY; N-GRAMS; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; TRANSLATION ALGORITHMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349839134     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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