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Introduction and Overview

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The explosion of information technology in the last two decades has led to a substantial growth in quantity, diversity and complexity of web-accessible linguistic data. These resources become even more useful when linked with each other, and the last few years have seen the emergence of numerous approaches in various disciplines concerned with linguistic resources.

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    Christian Chiarcos

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    Sebastian Hellmann

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Chiarcos, C., Hellmann, S., Nordhoff, S. (2012). Introduction and Overview. In: Chiarcos, C., Nordhoff, S., Hellmann, S. (eds) Linked Data in Linguistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28249-2_1

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