24.772, Media: Computational Modeling of Language Evolution

Tue Feb 12 15:58:55 UTC 2013

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Subject: 24.772, Media: Computational Modeling of Language Evolution

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:58:47
From: Anthony Aristar [aristar at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Computational Modeling of Language Evolution

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'Archaeologists will gain a powerful new tool in their quest to recover
ancestral, disappeared languages: Connecting machine learning algorithms with
Big Data in this field proved successful and will automate a process that
until now took decades. Spoken language changes continuously, and ancient
languages eventually die out and disappear - but only apparently, since even
modern languages still contain the roots of those proto-languages.

Computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, succeeded in
creating an automated “time machine,” by feeding huge amounts of modern and
ancient known vocabulary and grammar to their self-learning algorithms in
order to cross reference and find patterns in the chaos.'

Full article here:
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/4896/20130211/human-proto-language-
evolution-decrypted-computer-algorithm.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics

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