Chapter Towards automated language classification A clustering approach

• Yazar: Buch, Armin (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Erschler, David (auth), Jäger, Gerhard (auth), Lupas, Andrei (auth), Saxena, Anju (Editör), Borin, Lars (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Konular: linguistics; linguistic differences
• Online Erişim: 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...