Building parallel corpora by automatic title alignment using length-based and text-based approaches

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 939-955

  Yang, Christopher C ^a   Li, Kar Wing ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Covert translation; Cross lingual information retrieval; Parallel corpus; Sentence alignment

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COVERT TRANSLATION; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PARALLEL CORPUS; SENTENCE ALIGNMENT;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4243049091     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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