On the contribution of MWE-based features to a readability formula for French as a foreign language

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 441-447

  François, Thomas ^a   Watrin, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN LANGUAGE; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MULTI-WORD EXPRESSIONS; N-GRAMS; PREDICTIVE POWER; SIMPLE APPROACH; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866845823     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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