Named entity transliteration for cross-language information retrieval using compressed word format mapping algorithm

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-38

  Janarthanam, Srinivasan C ^a   Sethuramalingam, S ^b   Nallasamy, Udhyakumar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Compressed word format; Cross language information retrieval; Modified levenshtein distance; Transliteration

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; EDIT DISTANCE; LEVENSHTEIN DISTANCE; MAPPING ALGORITHMS; MICROSOFT RESEARCHES; NAMED ENTITIES; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE; USER QUERY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WEB SERVICES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 70450239882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460027.1460033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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