Old spellings, new methods: automated procedures for indeterminate linguistic data.

The authors have worked over several years on a software tool to make word counts from an archive of old-spelling early modern English plays and poems. In this article we present the outcome, a computational model for dealing automatically with variant spelling, implemented in an application which w...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 37 - 53
Main Authors: Craig, Hugh, Whipp, R.
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Published: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2010
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