Using Bilingual Web Data to Mine and Rank Translations

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 54-59

  Li, Hang ^a   Cao, Yunbo ^a   Li, Cong ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; TEXT PROCESSING; WEBSITES;

FOREIGN LANGUAGES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141606783     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2003.1217628     Document Type: Article

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