<i>Linguistica ad</i>—New Journal Series Announcement from Psammeticus Press SpecGram Vol CLII, No 4 Contents HomonimoKakuro—Trey Jones
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Cartoon Theories of Linguistics
Part IV—Statistical Machine Translation

Phineas Q. Phlogiston, Ph.D.
Unintentional University of Lghtnbrgstn

We will dispense with the preliminaries, and get to the meat of the matter. For the next installment in our Cartoon Theories of Linguistics, we will turn our attention to statistical machine translation, using semi-automatically aligned texts:

Next time: Phonetics vs. Phonology with guest cartoonist Hilário Parenchyma.

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Linguistica ad—New Journal Series Announcement from Psammeticus Press
HomonimoKakuro—Trey Jones
SpecGram Vol CLII, No 4 Contents