Biomedical Chinese-English CLIR Using an Extended CMeSH Resource to Expand Queries

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1148-1155

  Wang, Xinkai ^a   Thompson, Paul ^a   Tsujii, Jun'Ichi ^b   Ananiadou, Sophia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Biomedical information retrieval; CMeSH; Cross lingual information retrieval; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE; CMESH; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACKS; QUERY EXPANSION;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84876120386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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