Turing's formula revisited

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 222-241

  Zhang, Zhiyi ^a   Huang, Hongwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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EID: 51249141397     PISSN: 09296174     EISSN: 17445035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09296170701514189     Document Type: Article

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