Enhancing query translation with relevance feedback in translingual information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-17

  He, Daqing ^a   Wu, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Query expansion; Relevance feedback; Translation enhancement; Translingual information retrieval

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACKS; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY TERMS; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK METHOD; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77958479676     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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