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ERIC Number: EJ657900
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-3318-3324
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On Bidirectional English-Arabic Search.
Aljlayl, M.; Frieder, O.; Grossman, D.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v53 n13 p1139-51 Nov 2002
Machine-Readable Dictionaries (MRD) and Machine Translation (MT) systems are important resources for query translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). Investigates use of MT systems and MRD to Arabic-English and English-Arabic CLIR. Translation ambiguity is the key problem. Presents three methods of query translation using a bilingual dictionary for Arabic-English CLIR. Includes 25 tables and nine figures. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Dictionaries, Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Language Processing, Languages, Machine Readable Cataloging, Machine Translation, Reference Materials
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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