no code implementations • 3 Jan 2014 • Taraka Rama, Sudheer Kolachina, Lakshmi Bai B
In this paper we examine the usefulness of two classes of algorithms Distance Methods, Discrete Character Methods (Felsenstein and Felsenstein 2003) widely used in genetics, for predicting the family relationships among a set of related languages and therefore, diachronic language change.
