Non-Parametric Bayesian Areal Linguistics
by
Hal Daumé Iii
BibTeX
@MISC{Iii_non-parametricbayesian,
author = {Hal Daumé Iii},
title = {Non-Parametric Bayesian Areal Linguistics},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
We describe a statistical model over linguistic areas and phylogeny. Our model recovers known areas and identifies a plausible hierarchy of areal features. The use of areas improves genetic reconstruction of languages both qualitatively and quantitatively according to a variety of metrics. We model linguistic areas by a Pitman-Yor process and linguistic phylogeny by Kingman’s coalescent. 1
