Construction grammar in ICALL

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 427-440

  Schulze, Mathias ^a   Penner, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Construction grammar; Intelligent CALL (ICALL); Natural language processing (NLP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849100743     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588220802447727     Document Type: Article

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