Chapter Towards automated language classification A clustering approach

• Huvudskapare: Buch, Armin (auth)
• Övriga skapare: Erschler, David (auth), Jäger, Gerhard (auth), Lupas, Andrei (auth), Saxena, Anju (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare), Borin, Lars (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Ämnen: linguistics; linguistic differences
• Länkar: 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...