Resumen de CoToHiLi: computational tools for historical linguistics
Alina Maria Cristea, Anca Cristina Dinu, Liviu P. Dinu, Simona Georgescu, Ana Sabina Uban, Laurențiu Zoicaș
This project represents a computational framework for historical linguistics. The general purpose of theCoToHiLi project is to integrate expert knowledge and computational power to address cognate identification,cognate-borrowing discrimination, Latin protoword reconstruction and semantic divergence. The goal of theproject is twofold: 1) to automate certain parts of the traditional work-flow of the comparative method (suchas the collection of data or the automatic alignment based on predefined or inferred rules), and 2) to bringnew insights or avenues of investigation, which might not be easily accessible otherwise (e.g., the automaticidentification of patterns and regularities in large amounts of data). The project will provide tools for the mainRomance kernel group (French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish), as well as Latin. The methodologiesand computational tools proposed could also serve as a basis for further development for other comparablelanguage families, including less studied languages, with scarce resources available.
