Parallel and Comparable Corpora: What is Happening?

Incorporating Corpora: The Linguist and the Translator

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 18-31

  McEnery, Tony ^a,b   Xiao, Richard ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Arts and Humanities Research Council   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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