From bag of languages to family trees from noisy corpus

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 355-359

  Rama, Taraka ^a   Singh, Anil Kumar ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Language distances; Phylogenetic trees; Similarity measures

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CORPUS-BASED; CORPUS-BASED MEASURES; DISTANCE MEASURE; FAMILY TREE; LANGUAGE DISTANCES; N-GRAMS; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84866852530     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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