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<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong><br />
Ling472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics<br />
Lecture 1:<br />
Introduction<br />
Words<br />
Isa wa manwi thate lesco pe.<br />
I saw a man with a telescope.<br />
Observation: it appears that, in this language,<br />
one role <strong>of</strong> the space character is to partition<br />
symbols (letters) into units called “words.”<br />
Note: we always try to be aware <strong>of</strong>, and explicitly state, any<br />
assumptions that may not be cross‐linguistically valid<br />
Monday, April 1, 2013<br />
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