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Found 9 papers, 6 papers with code
Typological Word Order Correlations with Logistic Brownian Motion
In this study we address the question to what extent syntactic word-order traits of different languages have evolved under correlation and whether such dependencies can be found universally across all languages or restricted to specific language families. To do so, we use logistic Brownian Motion under a Bayesian framework to model the trait evolution for 768 languages from 34 language families.
Bayesian Phylogenetic Cognate Prediction
The system described here is a re-implementation of the tools used in the mentioned paper, adapted to the current task.
Imputing typological values via phylogenetic inference
This paper describes a workflow to impute missing values in a typological database, a sub- set of the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS).
Are Sounds Sound for Phylogenetic Reconstruction?
In traditional studies on language evolution, scholars often emphasize the importance of sound laws and sound correspondences for phylogenetic inference of language family trees.
Phylogenetic typology
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.
Computational Historical Linguistics
Computational approaches to historical linguistics have been proposed since half a century.
Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics?
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 inference compared to classical manually annotated cognate sets.
Global-scale phylogenetic linguistic inference from lexical resources
This matrix is suitable for distance-based phylogenetic inference.
Fast and unsupervised methods for multilingual cognate clustering
In this paper we explore the use of unsupervised methods for detecting cognates in multilingual word lists.
