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Tutorial on Computational Linguistic Phylogeny
Author(s) -
Nichols Johanna,
Warnow Tandy
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00082.x
Subject(s) - phylogenetics , phylogenetic tree , estimation , computer science , linguistics , computational linguistics , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology , natural language processing , biology , philosophy , biochemistry , management , gene , economics
Over the last 10 or more years, there has been a tremendous increase in the use of computational techniques (many of which come directly from biology) for estimating evolutionary histories (i.e., phylogenies) of languages. This tutorial surveys the different methods and different types of linguistic data that have been used to estimate phylogenies, explains the scientific and mathematical foundations of phylogenetic estimation, and presents methodologies for evaluating a phylogeny estimation method.