Automating the acquisition of bilingual terminology
Published 1 January 1993Open access
Pim van der Eijk
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Experimental results for a number of methods, which operate on corpora of previously translated texts, which compile bilingual lists of terminological expressions as automatically as possible are discussed.
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As the acquisition problem of bilingual lists of terminological expressions is formidable, it is worthwhile to investigate methods to compile such lists as automatically as possible. In this paper we discuss experimental results for a number of methods, which operate on corpora of previously translated texts.
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