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The SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task on the Prediction of Cognate Reflexes
This study describes the structure and the results of the SIGTYP 2022 shared task on the prediction of cognate reflexes from multilingual wordlists.
A Computational Model for the Assessment of Mutual Intelligibility Among Closely Related Languages
Closely related languages show linguistic similarities that allow speakers of one language to understand speakers of another language without having actively learned it.
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.
Representing and Computing Uncertainty in Phonological Reconstruction
Despite the inherently fuzzy nature of reconstructions in historical linguistics, most scholars do not represent their uncertainty when proposing proto-forms.
Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists
Training data for our PLMs consists of word lists with a maximum of 1000 entries per language.
Trimming Phonetic Alignments Improves the Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns from Multilingual Wordlists
Sound correspondence patterns form the basis of cognate detection and phonological reconstruction in historical language comparison.
Inference of Partial Colexifications from Multilingual Wordlists
The past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the world in specific.
Detecting Lexical Borrowings from Dominant Languages in Multilingual Wordlists
Language contact is a pervasive phenomenon reflected in the borrowing of words from donor to recipient languages.
A New Framework for Fast Automated Phonological Reconstruction Using Trimmed Alignments and Sound Correspondence Patterns
Computational approaches in historical linguistics have been increasingly applied during the past decade and many new methods that implement parts of the traditional comparative method have been proposed.
CLDFBench: Give Your Cross-Linguistic Data a Lift
With cldfbench, we introduce a framework for the retro-standardization of legacy data and the curation of new datasets that drastically simplifies the creation of CLDF by providing a consistent, reproducible workflow that rigorously supports version control and long term archiving of research data and code.
An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics
We present a fully automated workflow for phylogenetic reconstruction on large datasets, consisting of two novel methods, one for fast detection of cognates and one for fast Bayesian phylogenetic inference.
Automatic Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns across Multiple Languages
By excluding those patterns that occur in only a few cognate sets, the core of regularly recurring sound correspondences can be inferred.
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.
A Web-Based Interactive Tool for Creating, Inspecting, Editing, and Publishing Etymological Datasets
The paper presents the Etymological DICtionary ediTOR (EDICTOR), a free, interactive, web-based tool designed to aid historical linguists in creating, editing, analysing, and publishing etymological datasets.
Using support vector machines and state-of-the-art algorithms for phonetic alignment to identify cognates in multi-lingual wordlists
Most current approaches in phylogenetic linguistics require as input multilingual word lists partitioned into sets of etymologically related words (cognates).
Concepticon: A Resource for the Linking of Concept Lists
We present an attempt to link the large amount of different concept lists which are used in the linguistic literature, ranging from Swadesh lists in historical linguistics to naming tests in clinical studies and psycholinguistics.
A Benchmark Database of Phonetic Alignments in Historical Linguistics and Dialectology
In the last two decades, alignment analyses have become an important technique in quantitative historical linguistics and dialectology.
