Using a Chinese treebank to measure dependency distance

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-174

  Liu, Haitao ^a   Hudson, Richard ^a   Feng, Zhiwei ^a  

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Author keywords

Chinese treebank; Dependency distance; Dependency syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249084908     PISSN: 16137027     EISSN: 16137035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CLLT.2009.007     Document Type: Article

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