Alignment-based extraction of multiword expressions

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 59-77

  de Medeiros Caseli, Helena ^a   Ramisch, Carlos ^b   das Graças Volpe Nunes, Maria ^c   Villavicencio, Aline ^b,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic identification; Lexical acquisition; Machine translation; Multiword expressions; Statistical methods; Terminology; Word alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950690207     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-009-9097-9     Document Type: Article

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