3 papers
cs.CL2025
Advancing the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications with New Workflows and Data
Annika Tjuka, Robert Forkel, Christoph Rzymski +1
Lexical resources are crucial for cross-linguistic analysis and can provide new insights into computational models for natural language learning. Here, we present an advanced datab…
cs.CL2024
Are Sounds Sound for Phylogenetic Reconstruction?
Luise Häuser, Gerhard Jäger, Taraka Rama +2
In traditional studies on language evolution, scholars often emphasize the importance of sound laws and sound correspondences for phylogenetic inference of language family trees. H…
cs.CL2024
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…