Search Results for author: S{\o}ren Wichmann

Found 4 papers, 0 papers with code

From Linguistic Descriptions to Language Profiles

no code implementations LREC 2020 Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Harald Hammarstr{\"o}m, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, S{\o}ren Wichmann

Language catalogues and typological databases are two important types of resources containing different types of knowledge about the world{'}s natural languages.

Descriptive

The DReaM Corpus: A Multilingual Annotated Corpus of Grammars for the World's Languages

no code implementations LREC 2020 Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Harald Hammarstr{\"o}m, Markus Forsberg, S{\o}ren Wichmann

There exist as many as 7000 natural languages in the world, and a huge number of documents describing those languages have been produced over the years.

How to Distinguish Languages and Dialects

no code implementations CL 2019 S{\o}ren Wichmann

The terms {``}language{''} and {``}dialect{''} are ingrained, but linguists nevertheless tend to agree that it is impossible to apply a non-arbitrary distinction such that two speech varieties can be identified as either distinct languages or two dialects of one and the same language.

Towards identifying the optimal datasize for lexically-based Bayesian inference of linguistic phylogenies

no code implementations COLING 2018 Taraka Rama, S{\o}ren Wichmann

The assumption here is that the value of n for which the quartet distance begins to stabilize is also the value at which the quality of the tree ceases to improve.

Bayesian Inference

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