The Construction of a 500-Million-Word Reference Corpus of Contemporary Written Dutch
Theory and applications of natural language processingPublished 11 November 2012Open access
Nelleke Oostdijk, Martin Reynaert, Véronique Hoste, Ineke Schuurman
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