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Restoring the Sister: Reconstructing a Lexicon from Sister Languages using Neural Machine Translation
2021
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas
unpublished
The historical comparative method has a long history in historical linguists. It describes a process by which historical linguists aim to reverse-engineer the historical developments of language families in order to reconstruct proto-forms and familial relations between languages. In recent years, there have been multiple attempts to replicate this process through machine learning, especially in the realm of cognate detection (List et al., 2016; Ciobanu and Dinu, 2014; Rama et al., 2018) . So
doi:10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.13
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