Automatic generation of English/Chinese thesaurus based on a parallel corpus in laws

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 671-682

  Yang, Christopher C ^a   Luk, Johnny ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTEROPERABILITY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; THESAURI; USER INTERFACES;

CHINESE THESAURUS; ENGLISH THESAURUS; HOPFIELD NETWORK; PARALLEL CORPUS LAWS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0038636498     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10259     Document Type: Article

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