Papers Cognate Prediction

Bayesian Phylogenetic Cognate Prediction

In Jäger (2019) a computational framework was defined to start from parallel word lists of related languages and infer the corresponding vocabulary of the shared proto-language. The SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task is closely rel…

Probing Multilingual Cognate Prediction Models

Character-based neural machine translation models have become the reference models for cognate prediction, a historical linguistics task. So far, all linguistic interpretations about latent information captured by such m…

Can Cognate Prediction Be Modelled as a Low-Resource Machine Translation Task?

Comparing Statistical and Neural Models for Learning Sound Correspondences

Cognate prediction and proto-form reconstruction are key tasks in computational historical linguistics that rely on the study of sound change regularity. Solving these tasks appears to be very similar to machine translat…

Methodological Aspects of Developing and Managing an Etymological Lexical Resource: Introducing EtymDB-2.0

Diachronic lexical information is not only important in the field of historical linguistics, but is also increasingly used in NLP, most recently for machine translation of low resource languages. Therefore, there is a ne…

Multilingual Dictionary Based Construction of Core Vocabulary

We propose a new functional definition and construction method for core vocabulary sets for multiple applications based on the relative coverage of a target concept in thousands of bilingual dictionaries. Our newly devel…