2 papers
cs.CL2024
Can Large Language Models Code Like a Linguist?: A Case Study in Low Resource Sound Law Induction
Atharva Naik, Kexun Zhang, Nathaniel Robinson +7
Historical linguists have long written a kind of incompletely formalized ''program'' that converts reconstructed words in an ancestor language into words in one of its attested des…
cs.CL2024
Automating Sound Change Prediction for Phylogenetic Inference: A Tukanoan Case Study
Kalvin Chang, Nathaniel R. Robinson, Anna Cai +3
We describe a set of new methods to partially automate linguistic phylogenetic inference given (1) cognate sets with their respective protoforms and sound laws, (2) a mapping from…