Creating multilingual translation lexicons with regional variations using web corpora

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 534-541

  Cheng, Pu Jen ^a   Pan, Yi Cheng ^a   Lu, Wen Hsiang ^b   Chien, Lee Feng ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

BILINGUAL SEARCH; CULTURAL ASPECTS; GENERAL TRANSLATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; HONG-KONG; MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATIONS; REGIONAL VARIATION; TRANSITIVE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION LEXICONS; WEB CORPORA;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80053158455     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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