A Likelihood Ratio Test of Genetic Relationship among Languages (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing tests of significance for bilateral comparisons are infeasible by design or yield false positives when applied to groups of languages or language families. |
| Approach: | They propose a likelihood ratio test to determine if given languages are related based on the proportion of invariant character sites in aligned wordlists. |
| Outcome: | The proposed test solves the problem of false positives on some language families. |
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