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Computational Historical Linguistics
Gerhard Jäger
Computational approaches to historical linguistics have been proposed since half a century. Within the last decade, this line of research has received a major boost, owing both to…
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…
Global-scale phylogenetic linguistic inference from lexical resources
Gerhard Jäger
Automatic phylogenetic inference plays an increasingly important role in computational historical linguistics. Most pertinent work is currently based on expert cognate judgments. T…
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…