Analysis of Vocabulary Difficulty Using Wiktionary

Speech and Language Technology in Education, SLaTE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-64

  Medero, Julie ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

PART OF SPEECH; READING LEVEL; SIMPLE++; WIKIPEDIA; WORD FREQUENCIES; WORD LENGTH; WORD SENSE;

EID: 84960152878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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