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<h3><a name="HIST">Computers in historical linguistics</a></h3>
<a name="HIST">(NEW) <b>An algorithm to align words for historical comparison</b>
</a><a href="http://www.ai.uga.edu/%7Emc/aligner.pdf">(PDF)</a> <a
href="http://www.ai.uga.edu/%7Emc/aligner.ps">(PostScript)</a> <br>
This is the first step in a computer implementation of the Comparative Method.
A revised version of this paper has been published in <i>Computational
Linguistics</i>.
<p> (NEW) <b>Aligning multiple languages for historical comparison</b> <a
href="http://www.ai.uga.edu/%7Emc/multipr.pdf">(PDF)</a> <br>
Extension of the above to more than 2 languages at a time. Presented at
COLING-ACL '98. </p>
<p> (NEW) <b>The number of distinct alignments of two strings</b> <a
href="http://www.ai.uga.edu/%7Emc/number.pdf">(PDF)</a> <a
href="http://www.ai.uga.edu/%7Emc/number.ps">(PostScript)</a> <br>
Unfinished draft of a paper co-authored with E. R. Canfield. </p>
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