Evaluating the use of machine translation post-editing in the foreign language class

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-49

  Niño, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer aided error analysis; Foreign language written production; Learner corpus; Machine translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449092761     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588220701865482     Document Type: Article

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