The web library of babel: Evaluating genre collections

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3063-3070

  Sharoff, Serge ^a   Wu, Zhili ^b   Markert, Katja ^c  

^a Centre for Translation Studies   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Computing   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); WEBSITES;

ANNOTATED DATASETS; AUTOMATIC GENRE CLASSIFICATION; N-GRAMS; NUMBER OF SOURCES; ON CURRENTS; WEB CORPORA; WORD N-GRAMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84996498423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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