Machine-Aided Linguistic Discovery - An Introduction and Some Examples - Vladimir Pericliev
Detecting Significant Similarities: RECLASS and the Problem of Genetic Language Classification
Machine-Aided Linguistic Discovery - An Introduction and Some Examples - Vladimir Pericliev
Vladimir Pericliev [+]
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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Vladimir Pericliev is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics & Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, with over 60 publications in general and computational linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of science.
Description
Given a set of languages described in terms of feature values or wordlists, as well as the current genetic classification of these languages, the RECLASS program, which will be the object of discussion in this chapter, finds all pairs of languages, such that the languages in each pair both exhibit statistically significant similarities and belong to different language families.