Design, construction and validation of an Arabic-english conceptual interlingua for cross-lingual information retrieval

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 107-112

  Habash, Nizar ^a   Mah, Clinton ^b   Imran, Sabiha ^b   Calistri Yeh, Randy ^b   Sheridan, Páraic ^b  

^a Center for Computational Learning Systems ^*  (United States)

^b An MNIS Company   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

BILINGUAL LEXICONS; CENTRAL COMPONENT; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; MORPHOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL SYSTEM; PARALLEL CORPORA;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 85029115121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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