Papers with automatic word form reconstruction
Ab Initio: Automatic Latin Proto-word Reconstruction (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for proto-word reconstruction are time-consuming and manual, but few studies have done it . a recent study used cognates to reconstruct ancient languages from their modern counterparts . |
| Approach: | They propose to use Latin proto-words to automate the process of proto-language reconstruction . they leverage information from all modern languages and use conditional random fields for sequence labeling . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on previous results and requires less data . it is based on word forms in multiple Romance languages and on recurrent neural networks . |