Evaluation of String Distance Algorithms for Dialectology

COLING ACL 2006 - Linguistic Distances, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 51-62

  Heeringa, Wilbert ^a   Kleiweg, Peter ^a   Gooskens, Charlotte ^a   Nerbonne, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIGRAMS; DISTANCE ALGORITHM; DISTANCE MEASURE; N-GRAMS; TRI GRAMS; WORD LENGTH;

EID: 85187549332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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