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Chris -- 2025-05-10
In case you haven’t seen it yet (a link was posted at Language Log, courtesy of Chris), here is Sravana Reddy’s paper “Understanding Eggcorns,” which presents a computational approach to tracing the semantic links between eggcorns and their acorns.
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W09/W09-2003.pdf
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Thanks for posting! And if Sravana hangs out here, I’d be happy for her to speak up! Nice paper!
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