Improving the multilingual user experience of Wikipedia using cross-language name search

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 492-500

  Udupa, Raghavendra ^a   Khapra, Mitesh ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION NEED; NAME SEARCH; NATIVE LANGUAGE; USER EXPERIENCE; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

WEBSITES;

EID: 79958167293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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