The application of chordal graphs to inferring phylogenetic trees of languages

IJCNLP 2011 - Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 545-552

  Enright, Jessica ^a   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHYLOGENETIC; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CHARACTER DATUM; CHORDAL GRAPHS; EVOLUTIONARY TREE; HEURISTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS; LEXICAL INFORMATION; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATION; PERFECT PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; PHYLOGENETICS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84907358033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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