Using english information in non-english web search

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-24

  Gao, Wei ^a   Blitzer, John ^b   Zhou, Ming ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Cross lingual similarity metrics; Learning to rank; Non English web search; Query translation

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DOCUMENTS; CROSS-LINGUAL; DOMAIN TAXONOMY; MICROSOFT; NONLOCAL; PAGERANK; QUERY LOGS; RANKING FUNCTIONS; RANKING METHODS; RELATIONAL GRAPH; RELEVANCE RANKING; SIMILARITY METRICS; WEB PAGE; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCH QUERIES; WEB SEARCHES;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES; TAXONOMIES; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WEB SERVICES;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 70450280889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460027.1460031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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