The corpus, its users and their needs: A user-oriented evaluation of COMPARA

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 335-374

  Santos, Diana ^a   Frankenberg Garcia, Ana ^b  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração ISLA Quinta do Bom Nome   (Portugal)

Author keywords

English; Error analysis; Evaluation; Interface design; Log analysis; Parallel corpora; Portuguese; Usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249150442     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.12.3.03san     Document Type: Article

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