Pitfalls in corpus research

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 343-362

  Rietveld, Toni ^a   Van Hout, Roeland ^a   Ernestus, Miriam ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2 analysis; Agreement between transcribers; Corpus research; Effect size; Log odds; Power of a test; Sequential dependence; Unit dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845984898     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-004-1919-1     Document Type: Article

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