Selecting level-specific specialized vocabulary using statistical measures

System

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-269

  Chujo, Kiyomi ^a   Utiyama, Masao ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corpus; ESP; Extraction; Multi level; Specialized vocabulary; Statistical measures; Vocabulary; Vocabulary selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744552176     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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