Automatic Generation of English/Chinese Thesaurus Based on a Parallel Corpus in Laws.

Yang, Christopher C.; Luk, Johnny

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ERIC Number: EJ671890

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Publication Date: 2003

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Automatic Generation of English/Chinese Thesaurus Based on a Parallel Corpus in Laws.

Yang, Christopher C.; Luk, Johnny

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v54 n7 p671-82 May 2003

Discusses the growth in the availability of information on the Web in languages other than English and focuses on cross-lingual semantic interoperability. Describes the development of an automatic English/Chinese thesaurus and reports results of an experiment with legal information from the Hong Kong government, including precision and recall. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Chinese, English, Foreign Countries, Multilingual Materials, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Semantics, Thesauri, World Wide Web

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong

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