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Social (distributed) language modeling, clustering and dialectometry [PDF]
We present ongoing work in a scalable, distributed implementation of over 200 million individual language models, each capturing a single user's dialect in a given language (multilingual users have several models). These have a variety of practical applications, ranging from spam detection to speech recognition, and dialectometrical methods on the ...
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Lexical meaning and spatial distribution. Evidence from geostatistical dialectometry [PDF]
The relation between the semantic meaning of a lexical variable and the spatial distribution of its variants has been a common field of interest in traditional German dialectology throughout the past century. In the literature in question, several claims
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Dialectometry is a method of comparing data from different varieties of a language and assessing the degree of similarity by calculating the distance between them.
Tanguy Solliec
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Corpus-based dialectometry: frequency matrix & distance matrix
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2013). Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects: A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry. (Series: Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
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Dialectometry of Linguistic Varieties Common in the Distance between the South of Hamadan Province to the North of Khuzestan Province: Using Levenshtein Distance Approach [PDF]
Dialectometry is a computational, quantitative and statistical approach, in which linguistic differences, in a selected geographical area, are examined by using specific methods and techniques.
Shiva Piryaee +3 more
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This paper differentiates the general concept of transition in geolinguistics from that of a transition zone or hybrid area. The case examined is the dialect area lying at the intersection of Oïl, Oc, and Franco-Provençal within the Gallo-Romance domain,
Guylaine Brun-Trigaud +1 more
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The geolect of Pasvalys: a dialectometric approach to dialectal features
Using dialectometric methods and instruments, the article analyzes one of the new dialectal derivatives – the geolect of Pasvalys, located in the northern part of Eastern Aukštaitians of Panevėžys.
Agnė Čepaitienė
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Holistic corpus-based dialectology [PDF]
This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry',
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi +4 more
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Le provençal rhodanien, un carrefour dialectal façonné par la géographie du Rhône et son histoire
The metaphor of a linguistic crossroads used by Rohlfs in 1961 to describe the langue d’oc applies particularly well to Provençal Rhodanien. Although this dialect is well documented in the scientific literature, its boundary zones and diachronic ...
Camille Delarue
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This paper documents the many taxometric and cartographic achievements of the Salzburg school of dialectometry. The paper discusses the following topics: 1) problems of measurement ("taxatation") of linguistic atlas data (with particular consideration of
Hans Goebl
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