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Semi-automatic acquisition of domain-specific translation lexicons

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ANLC '97: Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing

Pages 340 - 347

https://doi.org/10.3115/974557.974607

Published: 31 March 1997 Publication History

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We investigate the utility of an algorithm for translation lexicon acquisition (SABLE), used previously on a very large corpus to acquire general translation lexicons, when that algorithm is applied to a much smaller corpus to produce candidates for domain-specific translation lexicons.

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