Linguistic Phylogenetic Inference by PAM-like Matrices

Delmestri, Antonella and Cristianini, Nello (2010) Linguistic Phylogenetic Inference by PAM-like Matrices. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    We apply to the task of linguistic phylogenetic inference a successful cognate identification learning model based on PAM-like matrices. We train our system and we employ the learned parameters for measuring the lexical distance between languages. We estimate phylogenetic trees using distance-based methods on an Indo-European database. Our results reproduce correctly all the established major language groups present in the dataset, are compatible with the Indo-European benchmark tree and include also some of the supported higher-level structures. We review and compare other studies reported in the literature with respect to recognised aspects of Indo-European history.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA075 Electronic computers. Computer science
    Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA063 Problem solving
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Phylogenetic inference, distance-based methods, PAM-like matrices
    Report Number: DISI-10-058
    Repository staff approval on: 01 Dec 2010

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