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| 2002 | - | Formulaic language and the lexicon - Wray | :: | 16 |
| 2001 | - | Radical Construction Grammar: syntactic theory in typological perspective - Croft | :: | 14 |
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| 1988 | - | Learning syntax and meanings through optimization and distributional analysis - Wolff | :: | 4 |
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| 2002 | - | Natural language grammar induction using a constituent-context model - Klein,Manning | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Comparing two unsupervised grammar induction systems: Alignment-based learning vs - van Zaanen,Adriaans | :: | 3 |
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| 1990 | - | The estimation of stochastic context-free grammars using the Inside-Outside algorithm - Lari,Young | :: | 3 |
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| 1998 | - | Emergent grammar - Hopper | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | Inside-Outside reestimation from partially bracketed corpora - Pereira,Schab- | :: | 1 |