Reconstructing the evolutionary history of natural languages

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn Part F129447, Issue , 1996, Pages 314-322

  Warnow, Tandy ^a   Ringe, Donald ^b   Taylor, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84944183407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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