A Stochastic Approach to the Grammatical Coding of English
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WALTER S. STOLZ, PERCY H. TANNENBAUM AND t?I(EDERICK V. CARSTENSEN U~ive'rsity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin words to be encountered during tile text processing. More recently, a straight dietionalT approach has been supplemented througtl the use of computational decision procedures. The present paper reports on one such computational system, WISSYN, in which decisions about how to code certain words are based on conditional probabilities of various form classes occurring in given syntactic environments.
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