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International Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialogue

TSD 1999: Text, Speech and Dialogue pp 321–324Cite as

Dispersion of Words in a Language Corpus

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This paper proposes new measures for dealing with word dispersion in a language corpus - reduced frequency and rarity. Their calculation is described and some results from the Czech National Corpus (CNC) presented. Some previous approaches are briefly mentioned.

This research was supported by the GACR, Grant Nr. 405/96/K214.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jaroslava Hlaváčová

  2. Institute of the Czech National Corpus, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, nám. J. Palacha 2, 116 38, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Pavel Rychlý

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineerig, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, Universitní 22, 306 14, Pizeň, Czech Republic

    Václav Matousek , Pavel Mautner  & Jana Ocelíková ,  & 

  2. Department of Programming Systems and Communication, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

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Hlaváčová, J., Rychlý, P. (1999). Dispersion of Words in a Language Corpus. In: Matousek, V., Mautner, P., Ocelíková, J., Sojka, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48239-3_58

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