In previous posts on cognate identification, I discussed the difference between strict and loose cognates. Loose cognates are words in two languages that have the same or similar written forms. I also described how approaches to cognate identification tend to differ based on whether the data being used is plain text or phonetic transcriptions. The [...]
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Cognate Identification: Orthographic Methods
Posted: 26 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: algorithms, cognate identification, cognates, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, language change, linguistics, machine translation, natural language processing, orthography, string matching
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Cognate Identification: Approaches
Posted: 10 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: cognate identification, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, language change, linguistics, natural language processing, phonology
In my previous post on cognate identification, I gave two definitions for cognates: strict and loose (orthographic). Strict cognates are words in two related languages that descended from the same word in the ancestor language. Loose cognates are words in two languages that are spelled or pronounced similarly (depending on the data consists of phonetic [...]
Cognate Identification: Definition
Posted: 6 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: classes, cognate identification, cognates, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, language and statistics, language change, presentations
I recently finished a literature review for my Language & Statistics 2 class. The topic was computational models of historical linguistics and my partner and I focused on cognate identification and phylogenetic inference. We split the work and my part was cognate identification. So I decided to blog about it for a bit and maybe [...]
