Can Corpus Based Measures be Used for Comparative Study of Languages?

Proceedings of 9th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, SIGMORPHON 2007 - Held in conjunction with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, ACL 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 40-47

  Singh, Anil Kumar ^a   Surana, Harshit ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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COMPARATIVES STUDIES; CORPUS-BASED MEASURES; MEASUREMENTS OF; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; WORD LISTS;

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