Improving phonetic alignment by handling secondary sequence structures

Johann-Mattis List (1)

1 Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf]

In this talk a modification of the traditional Needleman-Wunsch algorithm for pairwise sequence alignment is proposed which makes it possible to align sequences not only according to their primary but also to their secondary structure.

Keywords: secondary sequence structures; historical linguistics; phonetic alignment; sequence alignment; Needleman-Wunsch algorithm

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Linguistics

Johann-Mattis List. Improving phonetic alignment by handling secondary sequence structures. Computational approaches to the study of dialectal and typological variation, organized as part of the ESSLLI 2012, Aug 2012, Opole, Poland. ⟨hprints-00742679v1⟩