Towards a methodology for exploiting specialized target language corpora as translation resources

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-52

  Bowker, Lynne ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Data extraction techniques; Generic corpus analysis tools; Specialized target language corpus; Translation resource

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937327180     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.5.1.03bow     Document Type: Article

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