BibTeX

@inProceedings{rama-prasanth-2012-good-165075,
	title        = {How good are typological distances for determining genealogical relationships among languages?},
	abstract     = {The recent availability of typological databases such as World Atlas of Language Structures
(WALS) has spurred investigations regarding its utility for classifying the world’s languages,
the stability of typological features in genetic linguistics and typological universals across the
language families of the world. In this paper, we compare typological distances, derived from
fifteen vector similarity measures, with family internal classifications and also lexical divergence.
These results are only a first step towards the use of WALS database in the projection of NLP
resources and bootstrapping NLP tools for typologically or genetically similar, yet resource-poor
languages.
},
	booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
	author       = {Rama, Taraka and Prasanth, Kolachina},
	year         = {2012},
}