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The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself butat the same timehas acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics.
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Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Anju Saxena, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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