Large-Scale Dictionary Construction for Foreign Language Tutoring and Interlingual Machine Translation

Machine Translation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 271-322

  Dorr, Bonnie J ^a  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign language tutoring; Interlingual MT; Lexical acquisition; Semantic verb classes; Syntactic codes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TERMINOLOGY;

FOREIGN LANGUAGE TUTORING (FLT); INTERLINGUAL MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE DICTIONARY CONSTRUCTION; LEXICAL CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE (LCS);

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 0031363773     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007965530302     Document Type: Article

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