Combining evidence in cognate identification

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3060, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-59

  Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; INFORMATION SOURCES; PARAMETER-TUNING; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 7444219643     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24840-8_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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