12 citations · 12 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
q-bio.PE2021
Phylogenetic typology
Gerhard Jäger, Johannes Wahle
In this article we propose a novel method to estimate the frequency distribution of linguistic variables while controlling for statistical non-independence due to shared ancestry.…
cs.CL2018
Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics?
Taraka Rama, Johann-Mattis List, Johannes Wahle +1
We evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms for automatic cognate detection by comparing how useful automatically inferred cognates are for the task of phylogenetic…
cs.CL2017★ 12 cited
Fast and unsupervised methods for multilingual cognate clustering
Taraka Rama, Johannes Wahle, Pavel Sofroniev +1
In this paper we explore the use of unsupervised methods for detecting cognates in multilingual word lists. We use online EM to train sound segment similarity weights for computing…