Preliminary study into query translation for patent retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 57-66

  Jochim, Charles ^a   Lioma, Christina ^a   Schütze, Hinrich ^a   Koch, Steffen ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Patent retrieval; Query expansion; Query translation; Relevance feedback; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PATENT RETRIEVAL; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPANSION; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 78651321609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871888.1871899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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