Mass digitization and the garbage dump: The conflicting needs of quantitative and qualitative methods

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 425-431

  Gooding, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84883161683     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqs054     Document Type: Article

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