Abstract
Language change across space and time is one of the main concerns in historical linguistics. In this paper, we develop a language evolution simulator: a web-based tool for word form production to assist in historical linguistics, in studying the evolution of the languages. Given a word in a source language, the system automatically predicts how the word evolves in a target language. The method that we propose is language-agnostic and does not use any external knowledge, except for the training word pairs.- Anthology ID:
- C18-2015
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Editor:
- Dongyan Zhao
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 68–72
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C18-2015
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Alina Maria Ciobanu and Liviu P. Dinu. 2018. Simulating Language Evolution: a Tool for Historical Linguistics. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 68–72, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Simulating Language Evolution: a Tool for Historical Linguistics (Ciobanu & Dinu, COLING 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/C18-2015.pdf