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) |
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| 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 |
Other
| Other | 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 |
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| Country/Territory | Czech Republic |
| City | Prague |
| Period | 6/28/07 → 6/28/07 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Computer Science Applications
- Information Systems
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