Comparing different units for query translation in Chinese cross-language information retrieval

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 06-08-June-2007, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Shi, Lixin ^a   Nie, Jian Yun ^a   Bai, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CLIR; Language model; Parallel corpus; Translation model; Translation unit

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MODELING LANGUAGES;

CLIR; LANGUAGE MODEL; PARALLEL CORPORA; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION UNIT;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84994715659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/infoscale.2007.932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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