Software Revives Dead Tongues
A computer algorithm works almost as well as a trained linguist in reconstructing how dead "protolanguages" would have sounded
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A computer algorithm works almost as well as a trained linguist in reconstructing how dead "protolanguages" would have sounded, says a new study.
"Our [computer] system is doing a basic job right now," says Alex Bouchard-Côté, an assistant professor in the department of statistics at the University of British Columbia and lead author of the paper describing the algorithm. But the program does a good enough job that it may be able to give linguists a head start, the statistician added./.../
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