The joys of analyzing aggregate linguistic data

The joys of analyzing aggregate linguistic data

The joys of analyzing aggregate linguistic data
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, University of Freiburg
<bszm@frias.uni-freiburg.de>
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Analytic vs synthetic coding of grammatical information: text-type variability
4. Corpus-based dialectometry
5. Probabilistic grammars in aggregate comparison
6. Conclusion
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