Cross-lingual Information Retrieval using Hidden Markov Models

Proceedings of the 2000 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, SIGDAT-EMNLP 2000 - Held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 95-103

  Xu, Jinxi ^a   Weischedel, Ralph ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

BILINGUAL DICTIONARY; CHINESE DOCUMENTS; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILITY MODELLING; TERM TRANSLATIONS; TRANSLATION AMBIGUITIES; UPPER BOUND;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84989932649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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