Monthly Archives: December 2011

Spelling standardization improves research results

Posted on 5.12.2011 by mpalande

The Language and Identity project has reached one of its goals – the original  spelling of early English letters in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence has been normalized. Normalizing or standardizing idiosyncratic spelling improves the accuracy of automatic language … Continue reading →

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Dialogic Language Use 3: Miscommunication and Verbal Violence

Posted on 5.12.2011 by mpalande

Do insults have a logic of their own? Are there patterns in individual or collective ways of insulting? This is a conference organized by the Modern Language Society in Helsinki, Finland, 15-17 August 2012. See the conference blog for details: … Continue reading →

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