A Python Library for Historical Comparative Linguistics

Steven Moran (1) , Johann-Mattis List (2)

1 Quantitative Language Comparison
2 Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf]

In this talk we will discuss a European Research Council funded collaborative effort to build a Python library for undertaking academic research in historical-comparative linguistics. Our aim of implementing quantitative methods, specifically in Python, is to transform historical-comparative linguistics from a primarily handcrafted scientific scholarly endeavor, performed by individual researchers, into a quantitative and collaborative field of research, involving linguists, mathematicians and computer scientists.

Keywords: historical linguistics; Python library; sequence alignment; phonetic alignment

Domains: Linguistics

Steven Moran, Johann-Mattis List. A Python Library for Historical Comparative Linguistics. Euroscipy 2012, Aug 2012, Brussels, Belgium. ⟨hprints-00758536⟩