LINGUIST List 25.2446
Thu
Jun 05 2014
FYI: Release of BDPA 1.0
(Benchmark Database of Phonetic
Alignments)
Editor for this issue:
Uliana Kazagasheva <ulianalinguistlist.org>
Date: 05-Jun-2014
From: Jelena Prokic
<prokic
uni-marburg.de>
Subject: Release of BDPA 1.0
(Benchmark Database of Phonetic Alignments)
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We are pleased to announce the release of BDPA
1.0, a Benchmark Database of Phonetic
Alignments in Historical Linguistics and
Dialectology. BDPA 1.0 is a publicly available
benchmark database of manually edited multiple
and pairwise phonetic alignments which is
designed as a platform to test the performance
of automatic alignment algorithms. The database
consists of a great variety of alignments drawn
from a number of different sources. Currently,
BDPA 1.0 offers a total of 750 multiple
alignments, covering 8 language families, more
than 500 different language varieties, and more
than 50 000 words. The data is arranged in a
such way that typical problems encountered in
phonetic alignment analyses (metathesis, splits
and mergers of sounds, diversity of phonetic
strings) are represented and can be directly
tested.
BDPA is freely available for research purposes
and can be searched and downloaded at
http://alignments.lingpy.org.
Johann-Mattis List and Jelena Prokic
Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics
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