@inproceedings{cathcart-2019-toward,
    title = "Toward a deep dialectological representation of {I}ndo-{A}ryan",
    author = "Cathcart, Chundra",
    editor = {Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Malmasi, Shervin  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects",
    month = jun,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Ann Arbor, Michigan",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W19-1411/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-1411",
    pages = "110--119",
    abstract = "This paper presents a new approach to disentangling inter-dialectal and intra-dialectal relationships within one such group, the Indo-Aryan subgroup of Indo-European. We draw upon admixture models and deep generative models to tease apart historic language contact and language-specific behavior in the overall patterns of sound change displayed by Indo-Aryan languages. We show that a ``deep'' model of Indo-Aryan dialectology sheds some light on questions regarding inter-relationships among the Indo-Aryan languages, and performs better than a ``shallow'' model in terms of certain qualities of the posterior distribution (e.g., entropy of posterior distributions), and outline future pathways for model development."
}