Orthographic measures of language distances between the official South African languages.

Two methods for objectively measuring similarities and dissimilarities between the eleven official languages of South Africa are described. The first concerns the use of n-grams. The confusions between different languages in a text-based language identification system can be used to derive informati...

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Publicado en:	Literator Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 185 - 205
Autores principales:	Zulu, P. N., Botha, G., Barnard, E.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD Apr2008
Materias:	South African languages Prediction models Cluster analysis (Statistics) Orthography & spelling Text processing (Computer science) Text mining South Africa
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost