Bridging lexical gaps between queries and questions on large online Q&A collections with compact translation models

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 410-418

  Lee, Jung Tae ^a   Kim, Sang Bum ^b   Song, Young In ^a   Rim, Hae Chang ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b SK Telecom   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING;

EMPIRICAL METHOD; REAL-WORLD; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TRANSLATION MODELS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053349509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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