https://ojs3.uni-passau.de/index.php/calcip/issue/feedComputer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice2024-07-17T06:25:16+00:00Johann-Mattis Listmattis.list@uni-passau.deOpen Journal Systems<p>Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice offers tutorials and discussion notes devoted to the topic of computer-assisted approaches to language history and diversity. The tutorials cover a broad range of topics, ranging from introductory notes on programming, via examples for data-sharing and re-use, up to code examples for complex analyses using software like Python and R.</p>https://ojs3.uni-passau.de/index.php/calcip/article/view/341Converting an Artificial Proto-Language into Data for Testing Computational Approaches in Historical Linguistics2024-07-14T12:58:39+00:00Johann-Mattis ListMattis.List@uni-passau.de<p>This small study shows how data for an artificially created language that was supposed to reflect features of "proto-languages", predating modern languages by several thousand years, can be used in testing computational approaches in historical linguistics. In order to do so, computational workflow is described that retrieves the data automatically, creating a comparative wordlist compatible in format with software tools for historical linguistics, and then uses a baseline method for automatic cognate detection to compare an artificial language against a sample of Indo-European languages. The results show that artificial languages might help to fill a gap in testing that has so far been ignored in the literature.</p>2024-07-17T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Copyright remains with the author.