Automatically extracting typical syntactic differences from corpora

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-124

  Wiersma, Wybo ^a   Nerbonne, John ^b   Lauttamus, Timo ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

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EID: 79953102245     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqq017     Document Type: Article

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