Automatic construction of English/Chinese parallel corpora

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 730-742

  Yang, Christopher C ^a   Li, Kar Wing ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; GLOSSARIES; LINGUISTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0038613846     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10261     Document Type: Review

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