The Potential of Automatic Word Comparison for Historical Linguistics.
The amount of data from languages spoken all over the world is rapidly increasing. Traditional manual methods in historical linguistics need to face the challenges brought by this influx of data. Automatic approaches to word comparison could provide invaluable help to pre-analyze data which can be l...
Main Authors: | Johann-Mattis List, Simon J Greenhill, Russell D Gray |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5271327?pdf=render |
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