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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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Noisy clustering #4

Open PhyloStar opened 7 years ago

PhyloStar commented 7 years ago

Add a noisy clustering module for producing bootstrap scores for relationships between words.

PhyloStar commented 7 years ago

@Anaphory The module should implement the paper of http://www.let.rug.nl/nerbonne/papers/Nerbonne-Kleiweg-Manni.pdf where a distance matrix is corrupted by adding small noise that is normally distributed with mean as the mean of the distance matrix. This is repeated 100 times to give a statistical support to the branches in a dendrogram.