Search Results for author: Claire Bowern

Found 4 papers, 1 papers with code

Topic Modeling in the Voynich Manuscript

no code implementations6 Jul 2021 Rachel Sterneck, Annie Polish, Claire Bowern

This article presents the results of investigations using topic modeling of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS408).

Character Entropy in Modern and Historical Texts: Comparison Metrics for an Undeciphered Manuscript

1 code implementation28 Oct 2020 Luke Lindemann, Claire Bowern

We demonstrate the utility of these corpora for studying characteristics of the Voynich script and language, with an analysis of conditional character entropy in Voynichese.

Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics

no code implementations3 Feb 2020 Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Claire Bowern, Erich R. Round

Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference.

Semantic Change and Semantic Stability: Variation is Key

no code implementations WS 2019 Claire Bowern

I survey some recent approaches to studying change in the lexicon, particularly change in meaning across phylogenies.

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