Understanding scientific communication through the extraction of the conceptual and rhetorical information codified by verbs

Terminology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-84

  Rodríguez, Clara Inés López ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lexical chains; Semantic classification of verbs; Structured abstract; Tagged corpus; Terminology; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249136959     PISSN: 09299971     EISSN: 15699994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/term.13.1.04lop     Document Type: Article

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