22.1484, There's: Still So Much More To Offer
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Subject: 22.1484, There's: Still So Much More To Offer
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Date: 30-Mar-2011
From: linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: MultiTree Project At LINGUIST
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:29:04
From: linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: MultiTree Project At LINGUIST
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specializing in those families. We then search for the hypotheses
that are suggested by the specialists as well as find more on our
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hypotheses while highlighting the most accepted hypotheses in our
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Through these efforts, the MultiTree library has grown to include 1,092
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The comparison feature's ability to display two hypotheses in the same
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We've accomplished a lot so far, but there's still so much more that
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