Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Phylogenetic Inference Construction in Computational Historical Linguistics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09637v2
• Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 02:03:54 GMT
• Title: Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Phylogenetic Inference Construction in Computational Historical Linguistics
• Authors: Tianyi Ni
• Abstract summary: More and more languages in the world are under study nowadays, as a result, the traditional way of historical linguistics study is facing some challenges. In this paper, I am going to use computational method to cluster the languages and use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to build the language typology relationship tree.
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• Abstract: More and more languages in the world are under study nowadays, as a result, the traditional way of historical linguistics study is facing some challenges. For example, the linguistic comparative research among languages needs manual annotation, which becomes more and more impossible with the increasing amount of language data coming out all around the world. Although it could hardly replace linguists work, the automatic computational methods have been taken into consideration and it can help people reduce their workload. One of the most important work in historical linguistics is word comparison from different languages and find the cognate words for them, which means people try to figure out if the two languages are related to each other or not. In this paper, I am going to use computational method to cluster the languages and use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to build the language typology relationship tree based on the clusters.

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