Expanding queries with term and phrase translations in patent retrieval

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6653 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 16-29

  Jochim, Charles ^a   Lioma, Christina ^a   Schütze, Hinrich ^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; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MORPHOLOGY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LINGUISTICS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79959259623     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21353-3_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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