Query term disambiguation for web cross-language information retrieval using a search engine

Proceedings of the 5th international Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, IRAL 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 25-32

  Maeda, Akira ^a   Sadat, Fatiha ^a   Yoshikawa, Masatoshi ^a   Uemura, Shunsuke ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Mutual information; Search engine; WWW

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WORLD WIDE WEB;

CO-OCCURRENCE INFORMATIONS; COMPARABLE CORPORA; CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; DISAMBIGUATION METHOD; LANGUAGE RESOURCES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 85029364373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/355214.355218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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