Alignment and extraction of bilingual legal terminology from context profiles

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Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-99

  Kwong, Oi Yee ^a   Tsou, Benjamin K ^a   Lai, Tom B Y ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bilingual legal terminology; Context profiles; Domain specific corpus; Translation lexicon

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744785431     PISSN: 09299971     EISSN: 15699994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/term.10.1.05kwo     Document Type: Article

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