Some current quantitative problems in corpus linguistics and a sketch of some solutions

Language and Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 93-117

  Gries, Stefan Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Association measures; Mixed effects multi level modeling; MuPDAR; Token type frequencies; Variability based neighbor clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920591833     PISSN: 1606822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1606822X14556606     Document Type: Review

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