Statistical transliteration for English-Arabic cross language information retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 139-146

  Jaleel, Nasreen Abdul ^a   Larkey, Leah S ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language information retrieval; Named entities; Out of vocabulary words; Statistical transliteration

Indexed keywords

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (CLIR); NAMED ENTITIES; OUT OF VOCABULARY (OOV) WORDS; STATISTICAL TRANSLITERATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 8644261364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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