Context tree selection and linguistic rhythm retrieval from written texts

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 186-209

  Galves, Antonio ^a   Galves, Charlotte ^a   García, Jesús E ^a   Garcia, Nancy L ^a   Leonardi, Florencia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

BIC; European and Brazilian Portuguese; Linguistic rhythm; Model selection; Smallest maximizer criterion; Variable length Markov chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870283258     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOAS511     Document Type: Article

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