Natural language processing for information retrieval: The time is ripe (again)

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Lease, Matthew ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

information retrieval; natural language processing

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH RETRIEVAL; STATE OF THE ART; TEXT RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 79959671431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316874.1316876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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