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# LinguisticsTypes

Here we collect assorted types for linguistics and basic operations on those.
We also provide some connectivity with other approaches in different languages.
To this end, newtypes for types in LingPy are available:
<http://lingulist.de/lingpy/tutorial/formats.html>

The BTI module provides an internalized Text type to speed up algorithms on
short strings. This includes word and text alignments. BTI values can be
unboxed.

#### Contact

Christian Hoener zu Siederdissen  
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany  
choener@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de  
http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/~choener/