UniNE at CLEF 2008: TEL, Persian and robust IR

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1174, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Dolamic, Ljiljana ^a   Fautsch, Claire ^a   Savoy, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Natural language processing; Persian language (farsi); Robust retrieval; Stemmer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DOCUMENT REPRESENTATION; LIBRARY CATALOGUES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PERSIAN LANGUAGES; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; ROBUST RETRIEVAL; STEMMER; WORD-SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84921956118     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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