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Wow, this is very cool. Any fellow readers have suggestions for looking at SOTA with respect to computational approaches to lost languages? Ever since I found e
by yowlingcat 6y ago
Wow, this is very cool. Any fellow readers have suggestions for looking at SOTA with respect to computational approaches to lost languages? Ever since I found etymonline.com and I've started tracing word etymologies back to PIE, I've been thinking that I can't get enough of this stuff.
- sedatk 6y agoHere is a candy store for etymology enthusiasts: https://starling.rinet.ru https://starling.rinet.ru
- yowlingcat 6y agoWow! This is super cool -- another sibling commenter mentioned a Starostin paper as well. Thanks a ton.
- jrehor 6y agoWarning: etymonline.org goes to a sketchy black hole. The correct URL is etymonline.com
- yowlingcat 6y agoThank you! Edited.
- Ar-Curunir 6y agoIt really is so cool to see how cognates in different languages evolved :)
- philkrylov 6y agoThis: https://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/Starostin_Glotto.pdf https://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/Starostin_Glotto.pdf
- bpiche 6y agoAs to whether this is SOTA or not, I will not say. It is certainly a controversial method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_comparison I will say that as a teenager, mass lexical comparison, in Merrit Ruhlen's book 'The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue', was very compelling. Ruhlen worked closely with Greenberg, who was a famous historical/comparative linguist of African languages. Ten or more years later, with the benefit of experience, I feel like aligning hundreds of languages in a common vector space (multilingual word embeddings) will probably answer these questions better. But I am not a comparative linguist.