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<Paper uid="W04-3243">
  <Title>On Log-Likelihood-Ratios and the Significance of Rare Events</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We address the issue of judging the significance of rare events as it typically arises in statistical natural-language processing. We first define a general approach to the problem, and we empirically compare results obtained using log-likelihood-ratios and Fisher's exact test, applied to measuring strength of bilingual word associations.</Paragraph>
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