Media: Computational Modeling of Language Evolution
| Submitter: |
Anthony Aristar
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| Submitter Email: | aristar@linguistlist.org |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Computational Linguistics Historical Linguistics |
| Media Body: |
'Archaeologists will gain a powerful new tool in their quest to recover ancestral, disappeared languages: Connecting machine learning algorithms with Big Data in this field proved successful and will automate a process that until now took decades. Spoken language changes continuously, and ancient languages eventually die out and disappear - but only apparently, since even modern languages still contain the roots of those proto-languages. Computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, succeeded in creating an automated “time machine,” by feeding huge amounts of modern and ancient known vocabulary and grammar to their self-learning algorithms in order to cross reference and find patterns in the chaos.' Full article here: http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/4896/20130211/human-proto-language-evolution-decrypted-computer-algorithm.htm |
| Issue Number: | 24.772 |
| Date Posted: | February 12, 2013 |
