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cs.CL2024
Semisupervised Neural Proto-Language Reconstruction
Liang Lu, Peirong Xie, David R. Mortensen
Existing work implementing comparative reconstruction of ancestral languages (proto-languages) has usually required full supervision. However, historical reconstruction models are…
cs.CL2024
Improved Neural Protoform Reconstruction via Reflex Prediction
Liang Lu, Jingzhi Wang, David R. Mortensen
Protolanguage reconstruction is central to historical linguistics. The comparative method, one of the most influential theoretical and methodological frameworks in the history of t…