The effects of language relatedness on multilingual information retrieval: A case study with indo-european and semitic languages

CLIA 2008 - 2nd International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2008 - Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-9

  Chew, Peter A ^a   Abdelali, Ahmed ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CASE-STUDIES; CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL TEXT; RETRIEVAL FRAMEWORKS; SEMITIC LANGUAGES; TRAINING DATA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84903439567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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