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Querying across languages: a dictionary-based approach to multilingual information retrieval

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Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Zurich, Switzerland

Pages: 49 - 57

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-792-8

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David A. Hull	Rank Xerox Research Centre, 6 chemin de Maupertuis, 38240 Meylan France
Gregory Grefenstette	Rank Xerox Research Centre, 6 chemin de Maupertuis, 38240 Meylan France

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SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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