Etymological Consideration of “Shusei”

Minimum Description Length Modeling of Etymological Data

Etymological Wordnet: Tracing The History of Words

Research on the history of words has led to remarkable insights about language and also about the history of human civilization more generally. This paper presents the Etymological Wordnet, the first database that aims at making word origin information available as a large, machine-readable network of words in many languages. The information in this resource is obtained from Wiktionary. Extract...

Deep encoding of etymological information in TEI

In this paper we provide a systematic and comprehensive set of modeling principles for representing etymological data in digital dictionaries using TEI. The purpose is to integrate in one coherent framework both digital representations of legacy dictionaries and born-digital lexical databases that are constructed manually or semi-automatically. We provide examples from many different types of e...

Thesauri, taxonomies and ontologies - an etymological note

Probabilistic Models for Alignment of Etymological Data

This paper introduces several models for aligning etymological data, or for finding the best alignment at the sound or symbol level, given a set of etymological data. This will provide us a means of measuring the quality of the etymological data sets in terms of their internal consistency. Since one of our main goals is to devise automatic methods for aligning the data that are as objective as ...