Chapter Towards automated language classification A clustering approach

• Main Author: Buch, Armin (auth)
• Other Authors: Erschler, David (auth), Jäger, Gerhard (auth), Lupas, Andrei (auth), Saxena, Anju (Editor), Borin, Lars (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Subjects: linguistics; linguistic differences
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In this paper, we discuss advantages of clustering approaches to automated language classification, describe distance measures used for this purpose, and present results of several proof-of-concept experiments. We advocate the use of probability based distances - those that take into account the dis...