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PhyloStar / CogDetect

A lightweight library for cognate clustering, converting IPA sequences to sound classes, computing distances between languages
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Include Jaeger's distance function #11

Open PhyloStar opened 7 years ago

PhyloStar commented 7 years ago

Implement the doculect distance function for Jaeger (2013) paper: "Phylogenetic Inference from Word Lists Using Weighted Alignment with Empirically Determined Weights"

Anaphory commented 7 years ago

Calculating Jäger's dER sounds like a different beast to me than clustering cognates using various methods. It might go into a different package from the cognate alignment and clustering methods, though, and one strong connection is that the distance function d he uses does not need to be ASJP-based edit distance, but can also be our edit distance using PMI scores.