MDL-based Models for Alignment of Etymological Data
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چکیده
We introduce several models for alignment of etymological data, that is, for finding the best alignment, given a set of etymological data, at the sound or symbol level. This is intended to obtain a means of measuring the quality of the etymological data sets, in terms of their internal consistency. One of our main goals is to devise automatic methods for aligning the data that are as objective as possible, the models make no a priori assumptions—e.g., no preference for vowel-vowel or consonant-consonant alignments. We present a baseline model and several successive improvements, using data from the Uralic language family.
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