Query rewriting using monolingual statistical machine translation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 569-582

  Riezler, Stefan ^a   Liu, Yi ^b  

^a GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTS COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; EXPANSION; QUERY LANGUAGES; WEBSITES;

QUERY EXPANSION MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGE MODEL; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77958028534     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00010     Document Type: Article

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