Unsupervised learning of linguistic structure: An empirical evaluation

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-131

  Powers, David M W ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature maps; Multidimensional scaling; Orthography; Phonology; Self organization; Singular valued decomposition; Spearman Rank Correlation; Syntax; Tagging; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989382980     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.2.1.06pow     Document Type: Article

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