Mining a corpus of biographical texts using keywords

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-35

  Conway, Mike ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

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EID: 77952676244     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqp035     Document Type: Article

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