A probabilistic approach to diachronic phonology

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté; Percy Liang; Thomas L. Griffiths; Dan Klein

A probabilistic approach to diachronic phonology

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Percy Liang, Thomas L. Griffiths, Dan Klein

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Abstract

We present a probabilistic model of diachronic phonology in which individual word forms undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic tree. Our approach allows us to achieve three goals with a single unified model: (1) reconstruction of both ancient and modern word forms, (2) discovery of general phonological changes, and (3) selection among different phylogenies. We learn our model using a Monte Carlo EM algorithm and present quantitative results validating the model.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	887-896
Number of pages	10
State	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: Jun 28 2007 → Jun 28 2007

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Other	2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	6/28/07 → 6/28/07

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Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems

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A probabilistic approach to diachronic phonology. / Bouchard-Côté, Alexandre; Liang, Percy; Griffiths, Thomas L. et al.
2007. 887-896 Paper presented at 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.

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