Phrasal translation and query expansion techniques for cross-language information retrieval

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Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Pages: 84 - 91

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-836-3

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Lisa Ballesteros	Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
W. Bruce Croft	Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

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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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