A Technical Word- and Term-Translation Aid Using Noisy Parallel Corpora across Language Groups

Machine Translation

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 53-87

  Fung, Pascale ^a   McKeown, Kathleen ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Chinese; Noisy corpora; Technical terms; Translation aid

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

NOISY PARALLEL CORPORA; TECHNICAL TERMS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 0030678849     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007974605290     Document Type: Article

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