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Somers, H. (2007). Machine Translation and the World Wide Web. In: Ahmad, K., Brewster, C., Stevenson, M. (eds) Words and Intelligence II. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5833-0_11
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