Building and using comparable corpora for domain-specific bilingual lexicon extraction

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 19-26

  Fišer, Darja ^a   Ljubešić, Nikola ^b   Vintar, Špela ^a   Pollak, Senja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BILINGUAL LEXICON EXTRACTIONS; BILINGUAL LEXICONS; COMPARABLE CORPORA; CONTEXT VECTOR; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; FREQUENCY THRESHOLD; TRANSLATION OF CONTEXTS; WEB CORPORA;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84876797595     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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