An Attempt to Use Weighted Cusums to Identify Sublanguages

Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 131-139

  Somers, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genre; Register; Sublanguage; Weighted cusum

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION; CUMULATIVE SUM CHARTS; GENRE; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; REGISTER; SUBLANGUAGES; WEIGHTED CUMULATIVE SUM CHART;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84890445951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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