Papers by Carlo Meloni
Ab Antiquo: Neural Proto-language Reconstruction (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Historical linguists have identified regularities in the process of historic sound change. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to reconstruct proto-words based on cognates in daughter languages . they use a dataset of 8,000 comparative entries to analyze phonological changes . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms conventional methods in a proto-word reconstruction task. |