Further experiments in bilingual text alignment

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-150

  Somers, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Levenshtein distance; Parallel corpora; Text alignment; Vocabulary estimation; Word alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989367364     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.3.1.06som     Document Type: Article

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