Is a query worth translating: Ask the users!

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

Volumn 6611 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 238-250

  Hefny, Ahmed ^a   Darwish, Kareem ^a   Alkahky, Ali ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language search; Multilingual search; Query translation mining

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CROSS LANGUAGES; MONOLINGUAL BASELINE; MULTI-LINGUAL SEARCH; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE QUERIES; TRANSLATION METHOD;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84893624566     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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