Similarity Patterns in Words (Invited talk)
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Words are important both in historical linguistics and natural language processing. They are not indivisible abstract atoms; much can be gained by considering smaller units such as morphemes, phonemes, syllables, and letters. In this presentation, I attempt to sketch the similarity patterns among a number of diverse research projects in which I participated.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012