A Typology of Translation Problems for Eurotra Translation Machines

Machine Translation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 323-374

  Way, Andrew ^a   Crookston, Ian ^b   Shelton, Jane ^c  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"Hard" translation problems; Eurotra; Translation notations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA TRANSFER; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE EUROTRA;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 0031343869     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007942929342     Document Type: Article

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