Natural language processing and early-modern dirty data: Applying ibm languageware to the 1641 depositions

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-54

  Sweetnam, Mark S ^a   Fennell, Barbara A ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84859081976     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqr050     Document Type: Article

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