In defense of contextual vocabulary acquisition how to do things with words in context

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3554 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 396-409

  Rapaport, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

COMPUTATIONAL THEORY; VOCABULARY ACQUISITION; VOCABULARY LEARNING;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 26944494919     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11508373_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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