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In:Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 90] 2019
► pp. 1–15

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Parallel corpora in focus

An account of current achievements and challenges

Published online: 20 March 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.90.01dov
Article outline
  • 1.Three decades of parallel corpora in linguistic studies
  • 2.Processing and using today’s parallel corpora: Some trends
    • 2.1The process perspective
    • 2.2The product perspective
  • 3.Structure of this volume and presentation of contributions
  • Note
  • References
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