Exploiting query logs for cross-lingual query suggestion

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Gao, Wei ^a   Niu, Cheng ^b   Nie, Jian Yun ^c   Zhou, Ming ^b   Wong, Kam Fai ^a   Hon, Hsiao Wuen ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Que log; Query expansion; Query suggestion; Query translation

Indexed keywords

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUE LOG; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY SUGGESTION; QUERY TRANSLATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 78651327029     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1740592.1740594     Document Type: Article

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