Contributions to the Science of Text and Language
Author: Peter Grzybek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-01-17
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1402040687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Required reading for computational linguists, this work contains a series of important contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length. The book includes an introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three crucial fields of study in linguistics: linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and database design. Together they provide a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language.