Inducing phonetic distances from dialect variation

Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 109-118

  Wieling, Martijn ^a   Margaretha, Eliza ^a   Nerbonne, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTANCE; INFORMATION-THEORETIC DISTANCE; LEVENSHTEIN DISTANCE; PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS; POINTWISE MUTUAL INFORMATION; STRONG CORRELATION;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84857121496     PISSN: 22114009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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