Construction of a Chinese-English verb lexicon for machine translation and embedded multilingual applications

Machine Translation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-137

  Dorr, Bonnie Jean ^a   Levow, Gina Anne ^a   Lin, Dekang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese English lexicons; Lexical acquisition; Resource alignment; Thematic roles

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GLOSSARIES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CHINESE-ENGLISH VERB LEXICONS; LEXICAL ACQUISITION; RESOURCE ALIGNMENT; THEMATIC ROLES;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 10744231565     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COAT.0000010116.83274.c3     Document Type: Article

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