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QUALICO has been held for the first time as an international conference to demonstrate the state of the art in quantitative linguistics. This domain of language study and research is gaining considerable interest due to recent advances in linguistic modelling, particularly in computational linguistics, cognitive science, and developments in mathematics like modern systems theory. Progress in hardware and software technology, together with ease of access to data and numerical processing, has provided new means of empirical data acquisition and the application of mathematical models of adequate complexity. This volume contains the papers read at <em>QUALICO 91, and provides a representative overview of the state of the art in quantitative linguistic research.
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Year: 1,993
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 436
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Pages In File: 425
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Language: English
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Identifier: 978-94-010-4777-7,978-94-011-1769-2
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Doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-1769-2
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Orientation: 1
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Paginated: 1
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Org File Size: 42,888,988
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Extension: pdf
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Tags: Computational Linguistics Psycholinguistics Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-xiiFront Matter....Pages 1-1Science and Linguistics....Pages 3-10Menzerath’s Law and the Constant Flow of Linguistic Information....Pages 11-31Text as a Construct of Aggregations....Pages 33-39Synergetic Linguistics....Pages 41-51A Model of the Word Life Cycle....Pages 53-63Front Matter....Pages 65-65A Self-Organizing Lexical System in Hypertext....Pages 67-78Repairs in a Connectionist Language-Production Model....Pages 79-90A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities....Pages 91-138Front Matter....Pages 139-139Modelling the Distribution of Word Length: Some Methodological Problems....Pages 141-153The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A First Attempt....Pages 155-169Front Matter....Pages 171-171An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition....Pages 173-182Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO)....Pages 183-193Proposal of a New ‘Constraint Measure’ for Text....Pages 195-211Statistical Language Modelling Using a Cache Memory....Pages 213-220Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling....Pages 221-226Probabilistic Scaling of Texts....Pages 227-240Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models....Pages 241-250Statistical Experiments on Computer Talk....Pages 251-263Front Matter....Pages 265-265Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique: Outline of a Research Project....Pages 267-276Dialectometry: A Short Overview of the Principles and Practice of Quantitative Classification of Linguistic Atlas Data