The identification of spelling variants in english and german historical texts: Manual or automatic?

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-72

  Pilz, Thomas ^a   Ernst Gerlach, Andrea ^a   Kempken, Sebastian ^a   Rayson, Paul ^b   Archer, Dawn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 41149104070     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqm044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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