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Issues in searching for Indian language web content

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iNEWS '08: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1460027.1460044

Published: 30 October 2008 Publication History

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This paper looks at the problem of searching for Indian language (IL) content on the Web. Even though the amount of IL content that is available on the Web is growing rapidly, searching through this content using the most popular websearch engines poses certain problems. Since the popular search engines do not use any stemming / orthographic normalization for Indian languages, recall levels for IL searches can be low. We provide some examples to indicate the extent of this problem, and suggest a simple and efficient solution to the problem.

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Issues in searching for Indian language web content
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iNEWS '08: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching

October 2008

112 pages

ISBN:9781605584164

DOI:10.1145/1460027

Program Chairs:
Fotis Lazarinis
Technological Educational Institute of Mesolongli, Greece
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Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
University of Washington, USA
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Jesus Vilares
University of A Coruna, Spain
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John I. Tait
Information Retrieval Facility, Austria

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.12.010
Shekhar SSharma DBeg M(2017)Linguistic structural framework for encoding transliteration variants for word origin detection using bilingual lexicon2017 International Conference on Multimedia, Signal Processing and Communication Technologies (IMPACT)10.1109/MSPCT.2017.8363995(156-160)Online publication date: Nov-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPCT.2017.8363995
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2600428.2609622
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