To translate or not to translate?

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 651-658

  Lee, Chia Jung ^a   Chen, Chin Hui ^a   Kao, Shao Hang ^a   Cheng, Pu Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Query term performance; Query translation; Translation quality

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; QUERY TERMS; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUERY LANGUAGES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 77956041466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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