What science underlies natural language engineering?

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 642-644

  Wintner, Shuly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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NATURAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 71749094140     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.2009.35.4.35409     Document Type: Article

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