Mining a lexicon of technical terms and lay equivalents

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the Workshop on BioNLP 2007: Biological, Translational, and Clinical Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-56

  Elhadad, Noemie ^a   Sutaria, Komal ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

CLINICAL STUDY; MEASURES OF ASSOCIATION; MEDICAL TERMS; PARALLEL CORPORA; SEMANTIC EQUIVALENTS; TECHNICAL TERMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 85016677040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1572392.1572402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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