Ukrainian standard variants in the 20th century: stylometry to the rescue.
In this study, we use the General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian (GRAC, www.uacorpus.org) as an experimental field for testing stylometric approaches for variationist analysis. While, in the last years, quantitative methods such as binomial mixed-effects regression models as well as machin...
| Publicado en: | Russian Linguistics Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 217 - 233 |
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