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Using Correspondence Patterns to Identify Irregular Words in Cognate sets Through Leave-One-Out Validation
Frederic Blum, Johann-Mattis List
Regular sound correspondences constitute the principal evidence in historical language comparison. Despite the heuristic focus on regularity, it is often more an intuitive judgemen…
Annotating and Inferring Compositional Structures in Numeral Systems Across Languages
Arne Rubehn, Christoph Rzymski, Luca Ciucci +6
Numeral systems across the world's languages vary in fascinating ways, both regarding their synchronic structure and the diachronic processes that determined how they evolved in th…
Unstable Grounds for Beautiful Trees? Testing the Robustness of Concept Translations in the Compilation of Multilingual Wordlists
David Snee, Luca Ciucci, Arne Rubehn +2
Multilingual wordlists play a crucial role in comparative linguistics. While many studies have been carried out to test the power of computational methods for language subgrouping…
From Isolates to Families: Using Neural Networks for Automated Language Affiliation
Frederic Blum, Steffen Herbold, Johann-Mattis List
In historical linguistics, the affiliation of languages to a common language family is traditionally carried out using a complex workflow that relies on manually comparing individu…
Partial Colexifications Improve Concept Embeddings
Arne Rubehn, Johann-Mattis List
While the embedding of words has revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing, the embedding of concepts has received much less attention so far. A dense and meaningful…
Everybody Likes to Sleep: A Computer-Assisted Comparison of Object Naming Data from 30 Languages
Alžběta Kučerová, Johann-Mattis List
Object naming - the act of identifying an object with a word or a phrase - is a fundamental skill in interpersonal communication, relevant to many disciplines, such as psycholingui…