Ebook: Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics, QUALICO, Trier, 1991

QUALICO has been held for the first time as an international conference to demonstrate the state of the art in quantitative linguistics. This domain of language study and research is gaining considerable interest due to recent advances in linguistic modelling, particularly in computational linguistics, cognitive science, and developments in mathematics like modern systems theory. Progress in hardware and software technology, together with ease of access to data and numerical processing, has provided new means of empirical data acquisition and the application of mathematical models of adequate complexity. This volume contains the papers read at QUALICO 91, and provides a representative overview of the state of the art in quantitative linguistic research.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Science and Linguistics....Pages 3-10
Menzerath’s Law and the Constant Flow of Linguistic Information....Pages 11-31
Text as a Construct of Aggregations....Pages 33-39
Synergetic Linguistics....Pages 41-51
A Model of the Word Life Cycle....Pages 53-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
A Self-Organizing Lexical System in Hypertext....Pages 67-78
Repairs in a Connectionist Language-Production Model....Pages 79-90
A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities....Pages 91-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Modelling the Distribution of Word Length: Some Methodological Problems....Pages 141-153
The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A First Attempt....Pages 155-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition....Pages 173-182
Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO)....Pages 183-193
Proposal of a New ‘Constraint Measure’ for Text....Pages 195-211
Statistical Language Modelling Using a Cache Memory....Pages 213-220
Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling....Pages 221-226
Probabilistic Scaling of Texts....Pages 227-240
Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models....Pages 241-250
Statistical Experiments on Computer Talk....Pages 251-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique: Outline of a Research Project....Pages 267-276
Dialectometry: A Short Overview of the Principles and Practice of Quantitative Classification of Linguistic Atlas Data....Pages 277-315
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
A Statistical Approach for Phoneme-to-Grapheme Conversion....Pages 319-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Synergetic Studies in Polish....Pages 331-359
Quantitative Linguistics and Histoire des mentalit?s: Gender Representation in the Tr?sor de la langue fran?aise, 1600–1950....Pages 361-381
About Some Theoretical and Computational Interpretations of Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar (CPSG)....Pages 383-397
A Parallel Approach in Statistical Analysis of Unrestricted Corpora of Human Language....Pages 399-408
Correlational System of Verbal Features in English and German....Pages 409-420
Verb Patterns in the Polish Vocabulary and Texts....Pages 421-431
Back Matter....Pages 433-436

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Science and Linguistics....Pages 3-10
Menzerath’s Law and the Constant Flow of Linguistic Information....Pages 11-31
Text as a Construct of Aggregations....Pages 33-39
Synergetic Linguistics....Pages 41-51
A Model of the Word Life Cycle....Pages 53-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
A Self-Organizing Lexical System in Hypertext....Pages 67-78
Repairs in a Connectionist Language-Production Model....Pages 79-90
A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities....Pages 91-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Modelling the Distribution of Word Length: Some Methodological Problems....Pages 141-153
The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A First Attempt....Pages 155-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition....Pages 173-182
Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO)....Pages 183-193
Proposal of a New ‘Constraint Measure’ for Text....Pages 195-211
Statistical Language Modelling Using a Cache Memory....Pages 213-220
Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling....Pages 221-226
Probabilistic Scaling of Texts....Pages 227-240
Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models....Pages 241-250
Statistical Experiments on Computer Talk....Pages 251-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique: Outline of a Research Project....Pages 267-276
Dialectometry: A Short Overview of the Principles and Practice of Quantitative Classification of Linguistic Atlas Data....Pages 277-315
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
A Statistical Approach for Phoneme-to-Grapheme Conversion....Pages 319-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Synergetic Studies in Polish....Pages 331-359
Quantitative Linguistics and Histoire des mentalit?s: Gender Representation in the Tr?sor de la langue fran?aise, 1600–1950....Pages 361-381
About Some Theoretical and Computational Interpretations of Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar (CPSG)....Pages 383-397
A Parallel Approach in Statistical Analysis of Unrestricted Corpora of Human Language....Pages 399-408
Correlational System of Verbal Features in English and German....Pages 409-420
Verb Patterns in the Polish Vocabulary and Texts....Pages 421-431
Back Matter....Pages 433-436
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