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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
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 |