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语言间词汇距离的测量

Measures of lexical distance between languages

Università di Roma "La Sapienza"(罗马大学(罗马第一大学));Università dell’Aquila(拉奎拉大学)

Filippo Petroni, Maurizio Serva

摘要:

测量语言之间距离的想法似乎起源于法国探险家Dumont D 'Urville \cite{Urv}的工作。他在1826年至1829年的星盘航行中收集了各种语言的比较词汇表,在他关于太平洋地理划分的著作中,他提出了一种衡量语言之间关系程度的方法。现代声门年代学所使用的方法是由莫里斯·斯瓦迪什(Morris Swadesh)在20世纪50年代开发的,它测量了与共享同源词的百分比的距离,这些同源词是具有共同历史起源的词。最近,我们提出了一种新的自动化方法,该方法使用具有相同含义的单词之间的归一化Levenshtein距离和列表中包含的单词的平均值。最近,另一组学者\cite{Bak, Hol}提出了一个完善的定义,包括第二个规范化。在本文中,我们比较我们的定义与改进版本的信息内容,以决定两者中的哪一个可以更成功地解决语言之间的关系。

英文摘要:

The idea of measuring distance between languages seems to have its roots in the work of the French explorer Dumont D'Urville \cite{Urv}. He collected comparative words lists of various languages during his voyages aboard the Astrolabe from 1826 to 1829 and, in his work about the geographical division of the Pacific, he proposed a method to measure the degree of relation among languages. The method used by modern glottochronology, developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1950s, measures distances from the percentage of shared cognates, which are words with a common historical origin. Recently, we proposed a new automated method which uses normalized Levenshtein distance among words with the same meaning and averages on the words contained in a list. Recently another group of scholars \cite{Bak, Hol} proposed a refined of our definition including a second normalization. In this paper we compare the information content of our definition with the refined version in order to decide which of the two can be applied with greater success to resolve relationships among languages.

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