An open source toolkit for quantitative historical linguistics

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2013-August, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-18

  List, Johann Mattis ^a   Moran, Steven ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

COMPLEX WORKFLOWS; EVALUATION METRICS; GOLD STANDARDS; OPEN-SOURCE; PHONETIC ALIGNMENT; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; WORK-FLOWS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 85046737772     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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