Cross-Entropy and Linguistic Typology

Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 141-149

  Juola, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATION THEORY; ENTROPY; FORESTRY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES; CROSS ENTROPY; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; FAMILY TREE; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; RELATIONSHIP TREES; SMALL SAMPLES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85080018470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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