The automatic identification of lexical variation between language varieties

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 469-491

  Peirsman, Yves ^a,b   Geeraerts, Dirk ^b   Speelman, Dirk ^b  

^a RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL; DISTRIBUTIONAL MODELS; HIGH FREQUENCY; POSSIBLE FUTURES; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; TERMINOLOGY EXTRACTION;

AUTOMATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 78650071250     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324910000161     Document Type: Article

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