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Computer-Assisted Approaches to Rule-Based Phonological Reconstruction
- Author(s):
- Xun Gong, Nathan W. Hill, Seth Knights, Johann-Mattis List (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Group(s):
- Classical Philology and Linguistics, Digital Humanists, Digital Humanities East Asia, Linguistics, NLP for Ancient languages
- Subject(s):
- Computational linguistics--Methodology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- computer-assisted language comparison, computational linguistics, finite-state-transducers, historical phonology, Proto-Burmish, comparative method
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/2cbe-2j11
- Abstract:
- The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles facing the concrete use of transducers and introduces a software package built to reconstruct Proto-Burmish using transducers.
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- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 months ago
- License:
- Attribution
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