Exploring new languages with HAIRCUT at CLEF 2005

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1171, Issue , 2005, Pages

  McNamee, Paul ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character n gram tokenization; Cross language information retrieval; Parallel corpora; Pre translation query expansion; Translation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; CROSS LANGUAGES; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL CORPORA; PRE-TRANSLATION QUERY EXPANSION; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION; TOKENIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84922041845     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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