An Application of the PDT-scheme to a Parallel Treebank

Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Editors: Koenraad De Smedt, Jan Hajič and Sandra Kübler. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 1 (2007), 163-174. © 2007 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/4476

Using Parallel Texts and Lexicons for Verbal Word Sense Disambiguation

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Čitelnost města - Tvorba veřejných prostorů

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Verbal Valency in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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Hlásili to v rozhlase aneb vzájemné mapování lokace a aktoru v dvojjazyčném závislostním korpusu

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Suggestion form implementation of auditing due to needs of the car sellers and service

Práce se věnuje rozebrání připravenosti autoservisů a autosalonu na zavedení auditu dle norem ISO.Katedra dopravních prostředkůDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo

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