TY  - CHAP
AU  - Prokić, Jelena
AU  - Moran, Steven
ED  - Saxena, Anju
ED  - Borin, Lars
AB  - In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical linguistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the genealogical related-ness of languages. More recent quantitative approaches attempt to automate this process, either by developing computational tools that complement the comparative method (Steiner et al. 2010) or by applying fully automatized methods that take into account very limited or no linguistic knowledge, e.g. the Levenshtein approach. The Levenshtein method has been extensively used in dialectometry to measure the distances between various dialects (Kessler 1995; Heeringa 2004; Nerbonne 1996). It has also been frequently used to analyze the relatedness between languages, such as Indo-European (Serva and Petroni 2008; Blanchard et al. 2010), Austronesian (Petroni and Serva 2008), and a very large sample of 3002 languages (Holman 2010). In this paper we will examine the performance of the Levenshtein distance against n-gram models and a zipping approach by applying these methods to the same set of language data.
DO  - 10.1515/9783110305258.429
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006429
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135845144
KW  - linguistic differences
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/66f49368-b825-4bc5-99c1-289c7d0bbbe8/[9783110305258 - Approaches to] Black box.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23715
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9783110488081
TI  - Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomingsnull
ER  - 
