Measuring language divergence by intra-lexical comparison

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 273-280

  Ellison, T Mark ^a   Kirby, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; INTERNAL SIMILARITIES; ITS APPLICATIONS; NEW APPROACHES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84860501114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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