5 papers
How communicatively optimal are exact numeral systems? Once more on lexicon size and morphosyntactic complexity
Chundra Cathcart, Arne Rubehn, Katja Bocklage +7
Recent research argues that exact recursive numeral systems optimize communicative efficiency by balancing a tradeoff between the size of the numeral lexicon and the average morpho…
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…
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…
Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats
Arne Rubehn, Jessica Nieder, Robert Forkel +1
When comparing speech sounds across languages, scholars often make use of feature representations of individual sounds in order to determine fine-grained sound similarities. Althou…