Translating Collocations for Bilingual Lexicons: A Statistical Approach

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Smadja, Frank ^a,b,c   Hatzivassiloglou, Vasileios ^b,d   McKeown, Kathleen R ^b,d  

^a NetPatrol Consulting

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

^c NetPatrol Consulting   (Israel)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC TRADING;

BILINGUAL LEXICONS; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; LEXICAL INFORMATION; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL MEASURES; WORD COLLOCATIONS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 1542425466     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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