A maximum coherence model for dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 536-543

  Liu, Yi ^a   Jin, Rong ^a   Chai, Joyce Y ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

co occurrence statistics; cross language information retrieval; maximum coherence model

Indexed keywords

BILINGUAL DICTIONARY; CO-OCCURRENCE STATISTICS; COHERENCE MODELS; CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SENSE AMBIGUITIES; STATISTICAL MODELING; TRANSLATION AMBIGUITIES; WORD CO-OCCURRENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84885659770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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