From XML to XML: The why and how of making the biodiversity literature accessible to researchers

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1237-1244

  Willis, Alistair ^a   King, David ^a   Morse, David ^a   Dil, Anton ^a   Lyal, Chris ^b   Roberts, Dave ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); XML;

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; EXTERNAL SOURCES; INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATIONS; INTERMEDIATE STAGE; NATURAL HISTORY; XML FORMAT;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84904663199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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