Detecting structures in linguistic maps—Fuzzy clustering for pattern recognition in geostatistical dialectometry.
When geographic language variation is examined on a broad level, it is common practice to aggregate large quantities of data to identify dominating structures. This practice, however, runs the risk of neglecting valuable geolinguistic data. This article presents a perspective of dealing with large c...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 108 - 119 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2013
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