Bilingual term recognition revisited: The bag-of-equivalents term alignment approach and its evaluation

Terminology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-158

  Vintar, Špela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ATR evaluation; Bilingual term recognition; Comparable corpora; Parallel corpora; Term alignment; Word alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649863857     PISSN: 09299971     EISSN: 15699994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/term.16.2.01vin     Document Type: Article

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