Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
8:30–8:45 | Opening Computing and Historical Phonology
John Nerbonne, T. Mark Ellison and Grzegorz Kondrak |
8:45–9:45 | Keynote Speaker Word Similarity Metrics and Multilateral Comparison
Brett Kessler |
9:45–10:15 | Bayesian Identification of Cognates and Correspondences
T. Mark Ellison |
10:15–10:45 | Testing Cladistics on Dialect Networks and Phyla (Gallo-Romance Vowels, Southern Italo-Romance Diasystems and Mayan Languages)
Antonella Gaillard-Corvaglia, Jean-Léo Léonard and Pierre Darlu |
10:45–11:15 | Break |
11:15–11:45 | The Relative Divergence of Dutch Dialect Pronunciations from their Common Source: An Exploratory Study
Wilbert Heeringa and Brian Joseph |
11:45–12:15 | Can Corpus Based Measures be Used for Comparative Study of Languages?
Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana |
12:15–12:45 | Inducing Sound Segment Differences Using Pair Hidden Markov Models
Martijn Wieling, Therese Leinonen and John Nerbonne |
12:45–14:15 | Lunch |
14:15–14:45 | Phonological Reconstruction of a Dead Language Using the Gradual Learning Algorithm
Eric Smith |
14:45–15:15 | Evolution, Optimization, and Language Change: The Case of Bengali Verb Inflections
Monojit Choudhury, Vaibhav Jalan, Sudeshna Sarkar and Anupam Basu |
15:15–15:45 | Posters |
| On the Geolinguistic Change in Northern France between 1300 and 1900: A Dialectometrical Inquiry
Hans Goebl |
| Visualizing the Evaluation of Distance Measures
Thomas Pilz, Axel Philipsenburg and Wolfram Luther |
| Data Nonlinearity in Exploratory Multivariate Analysis of Language Corpora
Hermann Moisl |
| Emergence of Community Structures in Vowel Inventories: An Analysis Based on Complex Networks
Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu and Niloy Ganguly |
| Cognate Identification and Alignment Using Practical Orthographies
Michael Cysouw and Hagen Jung |
| ParaMor: Minimally Supervised Induction of Paradigm Structure and Morphological Analysis
Christian Monson, Jaime Carbonell, Alon Lavie and Lori Levin |
15:45–16:15 | Break |
16:15–16:45 | Dynamic Correspondences: An Object-Oriented Approach to Tracking Sound Reconstructions
Tyler Peterson and Gessiane Picanco |
16:45–17:15 | Creating a Comparative Dictionary of Totonac-Tepehua
Grzegorz Kondrak, David Beck and Philip Dilts |
17:15–17:45 | Discussion |
17:45–18:00 | Closing |