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.
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.
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.
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.