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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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Cleaned: 1
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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-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Science and Linguistics....Pages 3-10 Menzerath’s Law and the Constant Flow of Linguistic Information....Pages 11-31 Text as a Construct of Aggregations....Pages 33-39 Synergetic Linguistics....Pages 41-51 A Model of the Word Life Cycle....Pages 53-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 A Self-Organizing Lexical System in Hypertext....Pages 67-78 Repairs in a Connectionist Language-Production Model....Pages 79-90 A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities....Pages 91-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Modelling the Distribution of Word Length: Some Methodological Problems....Pages 141-153 The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A First Attempt....Pages 155-169 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition....Pages 173-182 Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO)....Pages 183-193 Proposal of a New ‘Constraint Measure’ for Text....Pages 195-211 Statistical Language Modelling Using a Cache Memory....Pages 213-220 Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling....Pages 221-226 Probabilistic Scaling of Texts....Pages 227-240 Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models....Pages 241-250 Statistical Experiments on Computer Talk....Pages 251-263 Front Matter....Pages 265-265 Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique: Outline of a Research Project....Pages 267-276 Dialectometry: A Short Overview of the Principles and Practice of Quantitative Classification of Linguistic Atlas Data