A probabilistic approach to language change

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20 - Proceedings of the 2007 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bouchard Côté, Alexandre ^a   Liang, Percy ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^b   Klein, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE METHODS; CORPUS-BASED; MODERN LANGUAGES; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILISTICS APPROACH; ROMANCE LANGUAGES; STOCHASTICS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 85162067019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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