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Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: Algorithms, Interfaces, Methods, and Software - Einzelansicht

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Semester SS 2018 SWS 2
Teilnehmer 1. Platzvergabe 15 Max. Teilnehmer 2. Platzvergabe 20
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13.07.2018
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List, Johann-Mattis , Dr. verantwortlich
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Institut für Anglistik Amerikanistik
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Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: Algorithms, Interfaces, Methods, and Software
Johann-Mattis List


By comparing the languages of the world, we gain invaluable insights into human prehistory and cognition. The traditional methods for language comparison are based on manual data inspection. With more and more data available, they reach their practical limits. Computer applications, however, are not capable of replacing experts' experience and intuition. In a situation where computers cannot replace experts and experts do not have enough time to analyse the massive amounts of data, a new framework, neither completely computer-driven, nor ignorant of the help computers provide, becomes urgent. Such frameworks are well-established in biology and translation, where computational tools cannot provide the accuracy needed to arrive at convincing results, but do assist humans to digest large data sets.

The seminar will provide a basic introduction into the major ideas behind the framework of Computer-Assisted Language Comparison (CALC) which is currently actively being developed. This framework pursues an interdisciplinary approach that adapts methods from computer science and bioinformatics for the use in historical linguistics. While purely computational approaches are common today, we focus on the communication between classical and computational linguists, developing interfaces that allow linguists to produce their data in machine readable formats while at the same time presenting the results of computational analyses in a transparent and human-readable way.

The seminar will focus on computer-assisted approaches to lexical change (including sound change) and lexical typology. We will discuss important algorithms and methods (phonetic alignment, phylogenetic reconstruction, colexification networks, derivation graphs), as well as interfaces and software (EDICTOR, LingPy, Concepticon), which scholars can use to apply the methods and inspect the results. We will discuss how new problems can be tackled with help of consistent models for annotation and algorithms for analysis. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data and problems, so that we can discuss during the seminar, how to analyse them in a computerassisted way. The software that we will use is based on Python, and the interfaces are usually written in JavaScript. We do not expect participants to know these programming languages in advance in order to join the seminar, but we expect that participants be ready to spend some extratime to make up for missing skills.

Recommended introductory literature:
List, JM (2016): Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: Reconciling computational and
classical approaches in historical linguistics. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.842734

List, JM (2017): A web-based interactive tool for creating, editing, and publishing etymological
datasets. URL: http://aclweb.org/anthology/E/E17/E17-3003.pdf

List, JM, Cysouw, M, and Forkel, R (2016): Concepticon. A resource for the linking of concept
lists. URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/127_Paper.pdf

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Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SS 2018 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024

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