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World Wide Web — A Multilingual Language Resource

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Web Intelligence: Research and Development (WI 2001)

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This paper argues that the World Wide Web could be regarded not only as an information resource but also as a dynamic, multilingual, least controlled, easy to access and untagged language corpus. In order to support this idea, we realized a method, which is able to extract bilingual lexicons from parallel WWW pages by two-stage alignment. Language pairs of German, English and Chinese have been selected but the realization is independent of any natural language, domain or markup.

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  1. Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Fang Li & Huanye Sheng

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Franklinstr.28/29, D-10587, Berlin, Germany

    Wilhelm Weisweber

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  1. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1 Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan

    Ning Zhong

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

    Yiju Yao

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Jiming Liu

  4. Department of Information and Computer Science, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 169, Japan

    Setsuo Ohsuga

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Li, F., Sheng, H., Weisweber, W. (2001). World Wide Web — A Multilingual Language Resource. In: Zhong, N., Yao, Y., Liu, J., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Web Intelligence: Research and Development. WI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45490-X_46

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