This article describes the first release version of a new lexicostatistical database of Northern
Eurasia, which includes Europe as the most well-researched linguistic area. Unlike in other …

In this paper, we propose a method to detect if words in two similar languages, Assamese
and Bengali, are cognates. We mix phonetic, semantic, and articulatory features and use the …

Computer-assisted approaches to historical and typological language comparison have
made great progress over the past two decades. Specifically for the classical tasks of …

While language contact has so far been predominantly studied on the basis of detailed case
studies, the emergence of methods for phylogenetic reconstruction and automated word …

Automatic detection of cognates helps downstream NLP tasks of Machine Translation, Cross-
lingual Information Retrieval, Computational Phylogenetics and Cross-lingual Named Entity …

Identification of cognates across related languages is one of the primary problems in
historical linguistics. Automated cognate identification is helpful for several downstream …

In speech, the connection between sounds and word meanings is mostly arbitrary. However,
among basic concepts of the vocabulary, several words can be shown to exhibit some …

A loanword is a word that is borrowed from one language and adopted into another;
examples are the English words toboggan, skunk, and hickory, all of which were borrowed …

In this paper, we investigate how the prediction paradigm from machine learning and
Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be put to use in computational historical linguistics …

The goal of this study was to compare model-generated sounds with the process of sound
acquisition in humans. The research utilized two dictionaries of the Chaoshan dialect …